Boy in Various Poses by Lewis Buxton Thomas A Clark The Following Scan Will Last

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsman’s cancer diagnosis

000 civilians buried in mass graces

drawn from an old geological map of Manchester in which Constantine finds ‘the locus itself

bullies who kick you under the table

are foregrounded in phonic mutation

Boy in Various Poses by Lewis Buxton Thomas A Clark The Following Scan Will LastBoy in Various Poses, a debut collection of poems from Lewis Buxton, explores all the different types of boy you can be tender, awful, thoughtful, vulnerable. Here, a maelstrom of mental health, male bodies, and sexuality is laid bare with wit and curiosity, and the complexity and multiplicity of gender itself is revealed. The boy in question is often shapeshifting, slippery, unreliable, close yet never quite in focus, moving too fast to pause and