the beautiful boys by Stanley Iyanu *** pre order***
£7.50
Stanley Iyanu takes the reader on a poetic voyage in search of the beautiful boys four characters and sections: the Libertine, the Outcast, the Villain, and the Joker.
Exploring themes of mythology, memory, modern love, and loss, the beautiful boys takes a humorous look at the pitfalls of dating in a city in your 30s to losing friends to suicide to finding love in oneself and in one’s community.
'the beautiful boys' is a love letter to the defiant, dejected, and deeply enigmatic.
'Iyanu's poems are contemporary in their phrasing even while they deal in the glitter and heartache of nineties love; addressed to various habibis, amores and darlings, they delight in their unstintingly open-hearted sexiness.'
Martha Sprackland -
