Nine Thoughts Over Oranges

Our hands sift through easy peelers, satsumas, tangerines and clementines

while the mind, too, goes to work, wondering whether forty years ago,

Karen Brodine imagined a cohort
of queer writers, artists, poets dreaming their hands

typesetting and printing, quick fingers trained precise by stickered expiry, chilli cheddar, camembert.

Sean Kinson uses unstable processes of writing to narrate instability of identity. They produce work with letterpress and typescript under the name Body Bilingual Books. This is their first poetry collection. [publishers’ note]