Kissing Other People or the House of Fame wilde dood Emily Lee Luan

Emily Lee Luan

an aversion to received ideas and conventions

hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction

a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behaviour at a play

My Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this essential poet's life work

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame wilde dood Emily Lee LuanKay Gabriel where when youre back well be having rice and pulses hold in gasses kiss and flip off the one or two remaining pigs A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks,