Harry Giles

Aug 17, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Michel Faber |Harry Giles |Nan Shepherd |Walter Scott

“It’s a brilliant reflection of our preconceptions about bodies, and what we think other forms of life may be capable of or how important we think they are, in terms of whether or not they look like us. The novel is written from the point of view of an alien who has a particular job to do, which involves rounding up humans (while trying to fly under the radar and go unnoticed), and then processing them for a particular use back on her home planet.” Read more...

Jun 21, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Harry Giles |Patrick E. Jamieson

‘Ach, Charlie! My gametes/ rest in their holsters, never/ to be unslung, be sprung,/ be origin, be stringing/ descent. (Selection is choice/ and coercion.)’Them! is the must-read new collection from Harry Josephine Giles. A quite unforgettable dive into what it means to be trans, how it is lived and politicised, Giles writes with characteristic ingenuity in a series of poems that will stay with you for days to come.

Mar 8, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | Harry Giles

Harry Josephine GilesSynopsis by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, negotiates the fraught and fruitful space between the worlds of ‘online’ and the ‘outside’, and how they fuse and diverge in the imagination.

Jan 7, 2024 | poems.poetrysociety.org.uk | Harry Giles

Published in The Poetry Review (Winter 2023, 113:4) Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science-fiction book of the year.

Oct 12, 2023 | vnexplorer.net | Harry Giles |Clive James |Raymond Antrobus |Rupi Kaur

1. The Bell Jar, 2. Deep Wheel Orcadia, 3. Somewhere Becoming Rain, 4. All The Names Given, 5. Milk and Honey, 6. The Wild Fox of Yemen, 7. The Stone Age, 8. Hiddensee, 9. Wedding Readings and Poems, 10. My Darling from the Lions. As the literary world continues to grow, so does the number of amazing poetry books being published each year. If you're looking for something new to read, check out the list of the top 10 best poetry books of all time.