White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Marian Christie religious intolerance

religious intolerance

religious didacticism and artistic inspiration

It considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and art

and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array

giving voice to critically underrepresented experiences of illness through poems that are as peculiar and creative as they are arresting

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Marian Christie religious intoleranceWhite Other is a strange hybrid beast part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working class other within neo liberal culture. White Other is memoir remixed, cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled, socially