HIGHLY COMMENDED - Forward Prizes 2018

NOMINATED - Polari First Book Prize 2018

WINNER - Poetry on the Lake Prize 2017

                       When the stranger called me a faggot

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"These are poems with an easy intimacy; Campion speaks to the reader about childhood, discovery of sexuality, place and young adulthood with striking humour, wit and honesty"

ANDREW MCMILLAN

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Toby Campion's debut short collection of poems talks us along a deeply personal yet undeniably relatable journey, through a turbulent adolescence into adulthood. 

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Refreshingly frank, perceptive and funny, these poems are psalms of identity, broken tradition and desperation sung from the back lanes of a Midlands city.