Reckless Paper Birds

Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden prizeShortlisted for the 2019 Costa Poetry AwardSurreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough.These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of ''vomit and blossom'' where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga, a ''fractal coast'' full of see-through things: water, mirrors, glass pebbles.With a magpie''s eye for hidden charms, McCullough ranges across birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony while also addressing social issues from homelessness to homophobia.