IN YOUR NATURE
Poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look.
Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known. “In this powerful debut, real humour coexists with aching grief and palpable, necessary anger. There is a fierce and ‘crackling magic’ in these poems which brim with haunting imagery and concise, original language.” -- Kayla Czaga, author of Midway and Dunk Tank “These poems cast spells, open portals, and illuminate safe passage through the cruel and restrictive binaries of our world. I am utterly charmed by this vital and deeply-realized collection. It does what I want all poetry to do: somehow transport me while leaving me feeling more inside my skin than before.” -- Raoul Fernandes, author of Transmitter and Receiver “The refined, inviting lyricism of these poems ground their complexity and invention, where pop culture is sacred and Christian mythology is folkloric, messy, and queer, where images and stories echo and transmute across time, empowering in one turn and devastating in the next. Buy this book for yourself, your past self, and every young person you know.” -- Kim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and How Festive the Ambulance |
SHAPESHIFTERS
Autumn 2018 with Rahila's Ghost Press
"A stunning debut, this is an important chapbook that refuses to shy away from the gritty details of determining who we are. McPhee is a writer to watch and a poet to admire, whose (at times) insecure speaker comfortably builds a home in a voice that reads enjoyably akin to a philosophically informed confessional." -- Shapeshifters reviewed by A.W. French for PRISM International. Read full review here. |
|| NON-FICTION ||
"Glossolalia" in Room, issue 41.4: Emergence : shortlisted for Room's 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest
"An Interview with Love, Simon director Greg Berlanti and actor Keiynan Lonsdale" in them.
"A Year Without George Michael, My First Queer Hero" in them.
"An Interview with Alessandra Naccarato" in GUTS Magazine
"Who Then Can Be Saved" in The Citron Review
"An Interview with Love, Simon director Greg Berlanti and actor Keiynan Lonsdale" in them.
"A Year Without George Michael, My First Queer Hero" in them.
"An Interview with Alessandra Naccarato" in GUTS Magazine
"Who Then Can Be Saved" in The Citron Review