Read an excerpt from In The Drink by Emily Crocker

Click here to download a PDF of an extract from Emily Crocker’s In The Drink. PDF includes two poems: Stamps for concession cardholders and Marsh.

In The Drink is the unflinching second poetry collection from Emily Crocker. 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.

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)

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).