115 x 190mm, 84 pages, black and white printing, saddle stitched, softcover 2023

Peonies Are Impossible throbs with the vascular rhythms that flow irregularly between a damp and very English queerness and the traditions of its working-class avant-garde. Like some sort of ecstatic kitchen sink melodrama, its lewd, lurching theatrics conjure ugly delicious pantomime magick in which characters dream themselves onto the page in real time. Look closely enough and you might even remember it as the intricate shed-dwelling diorama about which you caught a short documentary on Channel Four in the early 1990s, a labour of desperate love shining from a small-town cul-de-sac, lost in time.

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