In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.
In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic - documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye. Both powerful and compassionate, these extraordinary poems have the capacity to go beyond simply a record of events, reaching sensitively for the human details that matter - the beat of a heart and movement of breath, the touch of a hand, the words we use for goodbye.
| ISBN: | 9781916760103 |
| Publication date: | 20th February 2025 |
| Author: | James McDermott |
| Publisher: | Nine Arches Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
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Poetry by individual poets |
In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic - documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye.
Father Myself features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Father Myself was written by James McDermott and published by Nine Arches Press
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