That Broke into Shining Crystals

Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.

Trauma and vulnerability – violation and its aftershock – are explored within a framework of self-determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott’s second collection. In three distinct yet interlocking parts, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still-life paintings: controlled arran...