Milk Snake by Toby Buckley

Milk Snake by Toby Buckley

In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.

bleary
from sleep and warm
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding

he drags his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see

his guts
or maybe it’s
his dinner
- from 'companion'

Toby Buckley is an archivist and writer from Donegal, currently based in Belfast. He completed his MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast as the first recipient of the Ruth West Poetry Award Scholarship. His work has appeared in numerous literary publications including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Channel Magazine and the Doire Press anthology, Empty House (2021).

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ISBN 13	9781912915989
ISBN 10	1912915987
Title	Milk Snake
Author	Toby Buckley
Series	The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Emma Press
Year published	2022-07-21
Number of pages	36
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