Milk Teeth (Paperback)

Rae White

ISBN 10: 0702260169 / ISBN 13: 9780702260162

Published by University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. Winner of the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck.In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs and words dart and shift. White's wise and provocative poems define new ways, new languages. Winner of the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milk Teeth (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press, St Lucia
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702260169
• ISBN 13: 9780702260162
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Milk Teeth is a highly original debut volume of poetry by the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize winner. It interrogates notions of category, including but not limited to gender. Rae White has produced poetry that is playful and edgy yet, at the same time, accessible and meaningful. It is a wise, adventurous and provocative collection that announces the arrival of a significant new talent in Australian poetry.

About the Author

Rae White is a non-binary poet and writer living in Brisbane. Their poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Andromeda Spaceways, Woolf Pack and others. Their short stories have been published in Seizure, Capricious and Slink Chunk Press. Rae’s poem ‘what even r u?’ placed second in the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Rae is the editor of #EnbyLife, a collaborative zine about non-binary experiences. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative Writing Production) from Queensland University of Technology, and previously worked at 4ZZZ community radio as an on-air announcer. Milk Teeth is Rae’s first poetry collection.