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The phrase 'a disgusting lie' is taken from Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy, and the notion that without 'sincere passion, the heroism of self-sacrifice, and the unity of thought, word, and deed' revolutionism 'inevitably degenerates into rhetoric and becomes a disgusting lie'. Yet Lock is - at best - an ambivalent subscriber to this school of thought, her disgust is capacious, and she bestows it with as much energy on the sentimental overtures ...

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Lyric essays by Fran Lock on subject of the Feral in context of queer, Irish, Gypsy Romani Traveler, working class people and women.

White/ Other is a strange hybrid beast - part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti - a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working-class "other" within neo-liberal culture.

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Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language, it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate ‿ political, environmental, economic ‿ engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense ...

The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're obliged to live in, a book about being pulled both ways while belonging to neither camp. The poems cross back and forth between bleak rural isolation and claustrophobic urban squalor, in Ireland, in England and in Europe. Mystic and Pig Thief a...

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