Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer Yannis Ritsos

Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer Yannis RitsosThe Kinsey Scale is an archaic measure of homosexuality on a scale of 0 6, thought up by Dr. Alfred Kinsey in 1948. It ranks queerness with 0 being completely heterosexual, 6 being fully homosexual, and 3 being a perfect split down the middle. But the world is ending, and modern queers are famously bad at numbers. Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer is a rewriting of the original scale, measured to fit the expansiveness of a generation of

These bold

foreign assignments issued at the drop of a hat

From the bombsites of the 1940s to the construction sites of the 1960s and the school halls and decaying tower blocks of the 1980s

And where some of the poems address the despairing tragedies of history

The title of this book comes from the African proverb

This vital anthology sets out to help dispel the myth of Sylvia Plath as tortured genius destined to her fate

He was awarded first prize in the Poetry Wales competition and his poetry was shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award

of making toys out of leaves

crying babies and the BBC World Service

Hodell’s book is centered around a fictional race between poets

Fredrik Wandrup Dagbladet (29 July 2017)

Kathleen Jamie: Hölderlin into Scots