138 x 192mm, 72 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

All poems are stains or all stains are poems or so it seems to me after drinking down Shampoo Boy, Stevie Manning’s brilliant inebriant of a book. Stevie’s the poet laureate of the pleasures and perils of spilling, of spitting out, of sucking down — these pages are stained with early drinks and late dinners, with dates, dreams and disappointments, with sick bodies sick of being sick — this is a book of exorbitance, it’s the gorgeous in engorgement— oh Stevie Manning we love you please throw up.

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