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Act Cute

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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... Read More
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The second poetry collection from Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker.

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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 the poet-as-actor through five sections, titled Audition Sides, you stop me at the airport and tell me that you love me, twink death in Europa!!, Wedding Scenes and forgiveness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760995157

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 July 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Fremantle Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 176g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is an awardwinning Queer poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. His work draws upon intercultural and Queer critical theories, and the viral instabilities of identity, pop culture and the autobiographical self.

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