{"product_id":"spencer-wood-fain-1","title":"Spencer Wood, fain","description":"\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by Keats’ unfinished \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHyperion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e epics, Spencer Wood’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003efain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the world-reshaping power of queer intimacy. Accompanied by beguiling semi-abstract line drawings by Ben Skinner, these devotional poems are unabashedly romantic without becoming saccharine. Ethereal domestic bliss clashes with apocalyptic anxiety; the grotesquerie of dead rats brushes up against the innuendo of back garden ejaculation. Messy, tender, modern and timeless, Wood’s voice imagines new forms of belonging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Subtle humour, vivid imagery, sweet and dark as treacle. An eco-erotic joy to read.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarper Walton, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMidnight Movies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘These affecting poems, so alert to language and to image, perform the work of husbandry – in every sense of the word – in their domestic spaces of home and garden, where joy, love and care are housed within a precious and precarious safety.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeryl Pugh, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeral Borough\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the author \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpencer Wood is a writer and facilitator living in Leeds. He is a 2026 New Northern Poet, and his poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as And Other Poems, Fourteen Poems, Broken Sleep’s Masculinity Anthology, a Verve Poetry Prize Anthology, Strix and Modern Queer Poets among others. Spencer’s creative non-fiction has been published in Hinterland and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Spencer works for The Reader and leads shared reading groups in criminal justice settings across the north. fain is his debut poetry pamphlet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a cover illustrated by Ben Skinner. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seedlings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476454084943,"sku":"PK2555","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_52171.jpg?v=1786717867","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/spencer-wood-fain-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}