A Current Through the Flesh

A poetry collection that weaves family history into an abrasive cloth, tailored into the full regalia, pre-moth-eaten and torn, of everyday life.

With dry and unflinching humour, Richard-Yves traces traumas back four generations and across families to reveal the flimsiness of male self-images, the perils of silence and the latent power of women oppressed by toxic beliefs.

His poetry surprises and unsettles with haunting images like empty hands that always seem to hold a hammer and sharp knive...