Shaun Hill’s debut poetry collection, warm
blooded things is a radical and intimate encounter with boyhood, sexuality,
and violence, love, desire and solitude. Wandering the nocturnal city streets,
through random encounters, co-opting space and capturing conversations in a
multitude voices, this collection evokes alienation whilst longing for
tenderness.
These agile poems are alive to fear, loss, danger –
and to the possibility of other ways of being, other, better stories that we
can write. The poems also explore a uniquely queer archive of time and place, the
legacy of AIDS, and draw strength from giving voice to unheard histories. Seeking
sanctuary and alternatives to a capitalist reality, these precise, humane poems
gesture towards hope, survival and the necessity to be responsible for one
another.