Aftermath

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Thomas March's debut collection, AFTERMATH (The Word Works, 2018), the author turns over a lifetime of queer desire never quite requited enough. In these poems, aesthetic payoffs arrive through technical precision, but desire, death, jealousy and grief stay as messy and unresolvable here as they are in life.



According to judge Joan Larkin, the poems explore "queer identity, troubled masculinity, and those unsettling truths that illuminate and disorient consciousness....