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including the Arvon International and New Poetry

Shota Iatashvili

which imagines the picaresque adventures of a modern DJ as Don Juan

and explores their meaning

Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Colette Bryce I see p-e-a-r for aFinal Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. Channelling the tropes of slasher cinema, Mills interrogates survival, gendered violence and the figure of the 'Final Boy' as both myth and mirror. These poems are sharp edged, sexually charged, and formally agile, moving between elegy, confession and cultural critique with electric precision. Through