Reliefs

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Winner of the 2022 Thomas Shapcott Award To be a man is to scrutinise all men. And then lie about it. In this striking debut, Jarad Bruinstroop offers a frank and tender exploration of Queer history, art, beauty and pain. These poems delight in the audacious power of vulnerability and the revolutionary potential of Queer joy. With skill and wit, Bruinstroop plumbs the manifold pleasures of language in search of connection, transcendence and home. By bearing witness to the lives of Queer people past and present, Reliefs celebrates the resilience of the desiring body and pulses with renewed possibilities.

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Jarad Bruinstroop is a writer who lives in Meanjin. His debut poetry collection, Reliefs, won the 2022 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. As the 2022 UQ Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow, he is developing a novella cycle that draws on Brisbane's Queer history and the Fryer Library special collections. His work has appeared in Best of Australian Poetry, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island, Westerly, TEXT, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he also teaches.