Sweet Bone Girl by Esme Allman Lawrence Sail work and play - and

work and play - and the urgent need to find a voice for the poems that will somehow do the whole glorious riot of it justice

to an acute awareness of the restless nature of language itself

our hands cannot stop things from eluding us: de Borja engages with conditions of ephemerality and precarity in this book

From the first New Poetries anthology

Sweet Bone Girl by Esme Allman Lawrence Sail work and play - andSweet Bone Girl by Esme Allman is a bold and intimate collection that unravels the complexities of love, identity, and desire. Through a series of raw and evocative poems, Allman navigates the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, offering a deeply personal exploration of the self and the body. From moments of tenderness to confrontations with societal expectations, this collection is a celebration of the voices that refuse to be silenced.