Soho by Richard Scott Luljeta Lleshanaku This richly multi-layered dialogue arises

This richly multi-layered dialogue arises from responses to each poet’s public world

the limbo dancer

Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder Valley

They are love poems fused with passion and generosity

She is also an accomplished artist

Soho by Richard Scott Luljeta Lleshanaku This richly multi-layered dialogue arisesIn this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness,