Nude as Retrospect

“In his arresting debut pamphlet, Alex Marlow asks what desire and longing look like in the 21st century.

Nude as Retrospect is an exploration of contemporary intimacy examined through the lens of family, queerness, sex, and mental health. These are poems that position connection as the root of human want, while straddling the gaps between what we have and what we can get.

‘Erotic and tender poems which speak with ease and power to the propensity of one body towards another, of casual encounter, of how the vehicle of the poem can help us make sense of who we were, how it was we arrived here, at who we are now, where and how we might yearn to move in the future’ — Andrew McMillan