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Queers Like Me

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Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith is a confessional and immersive poetry collection that traces the journey of growing up queer and working class, then embracing an urban queer identity. The poems evoke intimate moments of family life, from awkward dinners to funerals, while navigating grief and complex emotions. Smith shares his first home, teenage crushes, and post-club experiences, painting a vivid portrait of queer coming-of-age.
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Ideal for readers interested in queer experiences, poetry enthusiasts, and those drawn to honest reflections on family, identity, and personal growth within the arts and culture sphere.

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Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith's latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.

In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, and daydreams of confronting your childhood bully.

Queers Like Me is an enveloping bookโ€” a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781771668507

Publisher: Book*hug

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 October 2023

Country: Canada

Imprint: Book*hug

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 181g

Pages: 146

About the Author

MICHAEL V. SMITH is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. His poetry has been shortlisted for the ReLit Award, his fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and his queer memoir My Body Is Yours was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Smith is the winner of a Western Magazine Award, numerous film awards, and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada. He is currently a professor in Kelowna, BC, where he lives with his husband on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan people.

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