Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Colette Bryce Shota Iatashvili

Shota Iatashvili

I see p-e-a-r for a second before I see

’ The house is a place of memory and of dream

often inextricably bound up with the pain it can cause ("I keep loving you like an old bruise / still tender") but expressed in such rich and startling language

Changing to study English

Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Colette Bryce Shota IatashviliFinal 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