I Hate Parties Product Form:Paperback / softback its hands raised

its hands raised

5 in - 24 pp

practically Doukhobor royalty

poignant and elegiac book

In 1999 Brad Cran exploded onto the Canadian literary scene with the release of Hammer & Tongs

I Hate Parties Product Form:Paperback / softback its hands raisedDescription Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces. Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B side of growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary. From Scruff dates to mix tapes, Jes Battis cruises (and crashes) through wild feelings and minor catastrophes. Dipping readers into a world of missed connections, social disasters and life as a queer