Skin Hunger

Like Brown's book of short stories Calling The Fish and his novel Marked Men, Skin Hunger explores a seedy but loveable Auckland of crumbling Bohemian villas, underfurnished apartments and twenty-four hour bars. The poems set amidst Auckland's gay community have considerable sociological and historical value, despite the fact that they eschew generalisation and political rhetoric.

Here is a poet who 'exposes himself to love', sex and 'life as legend' with courage, exuberance and hunger. Gri...