White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Marian Christie It considers how trauma is

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

religious didacticism and artistic inspiration

sea-salt childhood memories – taste the rain – and an exuberant riff on Christopher Smart that serves as a hymn to manure

Also a celebrated poet

It is also a triumphant paean to beauty

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Marian Christie It considers how trauma isWhite 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