New Transgender Blockbusters
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
New Transgender Blockbusters
By (Author) Oscar Upperton
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
13th February 2020
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
72
Description
The dead should come back changed, or what's the point Why do you hide your head beneath the bedclothes Doesn't everyone name themselves Is your house a bottle Are you trapped in there Isn't it nice to be this close to someone Can we go back to our notes Please Urgent, witty and unnervingly beautiful, Oscar Upperton's first collection takes familiar language and makes it uncanny. Suns detach. The ocean climbs a mast. Someone forgets where their haunted house is. These poems are vitally human and consoling; they reframe the ordinary as something to yearn for.
Author Bio
Oscar Upperton was born in Christchurch in 1991, and grew up in Whangrei and Palmerston North. He now lives in Wellington. In 2019 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary. His work has featured in Sport, The Spinoff, Metro and Best New Zealand Poems.
