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Lorcán Black’s brilliant new collection, Strange Husbandry, contrasts modern-day stories of queer passion with older stories from myth and history. The title references not just husbandry in farming of crops and animals, but a more personal rendering of the word, calling on the etymology of the word, meaning to manage carefully. Strange Husbandry is rooted in the city of London during the years of the COVID-19 pandemic and the beginning of war in Ukraine, and it is a strange moment in the metropolis characterised by lockdown, missing persons and terror attacks. Black’s world is indeed a place where care is needed, and the quality of care in these poems means acknowledging the pain and precariousness that exist in both personal stories and external conflicts.

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Lorcán Black is an Irish writer, living in London. His poetry has been published widely including in The Tomahawk Creek Review, Letters Journal, The Rush, Grim & Gilded, Progenitor, Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review and The Stinging Fly, amongst numerous others. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and his fiction has been longlisted for the Two Sylvias Prize, longlisted for the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, twice shortlisted for the Paris Literary Prize for fiction, and also shortlisted for the Black Spring Press Prize. His first collection, ‘Rituals‘, was published by April Gloaming Publishing in 2019.

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