PRE-ORDER: In The Drink, by Emily Crocker

Pre-orders are now open for In The Drink by Emily Crocker.

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Every afternoon you bring out the scraps.

Shoes off, shirt unbuttoned, head open.

The hens flocking like ravenous mourners,

flustered through the motions, dusty and grey.

Poems stream through In The Drink, collecting hauntings of desire and futures lost. Visceral and at times crushingly funny, In The Drink truly makes poetry of a working class queerness.

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Praise for Emily Crocker

“Crocker has a vivid way with her imagery, an almost casual ability to draw attention to the unexpected. How can ‘the names of the other rocks’ move out of someone’s ‘mind like an abattoir’?” - David Dick, Cordite Poetry Review

Read a review of Girls and Buoyant over at Cordite >

Read a review of Girls and Buoyant over at Australian Poetry >

About the author

Emily Crocker is a poet, educator, and organiser who now lives, learns, works, and writes in Naarm (Melbourne). Emily’s work in all arenas is informed by a politics of queer togetherness and class criticism, developed through lived experience and invaluable community connections. Emily grew up on Dharawal land in outer south-western Sydney, and came of age in Wollongong’s spoken word scene. Since then, she has created poetic and performance works with Shopfront Arts Coop and Campbelltown Arts Centre, and has been commissioned by Wollongong Writers Festival, Merrigong Theatre, and Red Room Poetry. Education is central to Emily’s practice and she has facilitated workshops in countless schools, youth centres, community places, and libraries. Emily completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wollongong and is currently working towards a Master of Teaching through the University of Melbourne. In The Drink is her second collection, following Girls and Buoyant (Subbed In, 2017).