Milk Snake: Poems

Milk Snake invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough.

In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.

bleary
from sleep and warm
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding

he drags his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see

his guts
or maybe it’s
his dinner
- from ''companion''

• | Author: Toby Buckley
• | Publisher: The Emma Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 21, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781912915989
• | ISBN-10: 1912915987