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Timothy Thornton
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CANDLES AND WATER, a queer pillow book (Pilot Press)
SHAPESHIFTING (RunAmok Press)

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My poetry Books of the Year for the Times Literary Supplement: Rachael Allen, Timothy Thornton and Gboyega Odubanjo
Three book-length works by poets this year fascinated and moved me with the different ways they drew so much verbal life and dark comedy from contemporary landscapes of poverty and violence. Rachael Allen’s God Complex (Faber) painted corrupted depths of love with a brush streaked in bright toxins and ironic wrongness (“Cute and early bruise”); Timothy Thornton’s Candles and Water (Pilot Press) told of queerness and ghostliness, addiction and grief, in short prose of great imaginative richness and honesty, dropping immaculately modulated phrases on every page (“the flicker of ghost water meeting itself along a shear”); and Gboyega Odubanjo’s posthumous debut, Adam (Faber), took the story of the torso of a Black boy found in the Thames in 2001 and explored its symbolism for the poet’s youth in a London where “the streets are paved with cousins”. It’s a profound loss that his first book is also his last.
November 15, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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One of my favourite books of the year is Timothy Thornton's 'Candles and Water' a rare and transformational book, haunting, beautiful and watchful. Writing that follows its brush like Sei Shōnagon. Published by Pilot Press.
Cover of Timothy Thornton's wonderful queer pillow book 'Candles and Water'. Published by Pilot Press https://pilotpress.co.uk/catalogue
December 6, 2024 at 2:26 PM