Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects by Fran Lock

"what should i tell you? that feral will not enrich you. that feral will not be mastered. feral is `wild' without utility. it offers nothing, and it asks for nothing in return."In this uncompromising collection of lyric essays, T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fran Lock pulls us with her into the vortex of the `feral'. From medieval bestiaries to Poundland, Edmund Spenser to X-Ray Spex, in Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects Lock explores and eviscerates historical and cultural links between animality and otherness in contexts ranging across class, gender, queerness and Irishness. Overflowing with `strange rigour' and a rage that is `tempering hope' Lock excavates the ways feral is at once both trap and means of liberation. `Fran Lock is our savvy sc/avenging angel, undoing the curse of racial capitalism's stranglehold on language and meaning. Mattering out of place, Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects is endlessly errant, reminding us that writing is "a verb, not a noun," immersive, propulsive and absolutely extra. Every line is so alive, so completely itself, it leaps from the page to flare bright & huge as graffiti on every wall until they fall.' - So Mayer
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