Andrew Sutherland

A brilliant debut that examines a haunted queer and HIV-positive identity, across spaces and citizenships both physical and imagined. Paradise (point of transmission) is a poetry collection placed within a sequence of physical and psychic transitional spaces—from seronegative to seropositive; from 'adopted' Singaporean to the poet finding his place again as an adult in the Perth of his childhood; and...

The second poetry collection from award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and queer desiring. Shifting between autofictive address and canonical personae, the structural codes of romantic drama uneasily frame...