Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Troubador Subtle and daring

Subtle and daring

with the image of a girl’s hand jutting up from cracks in the rubble

to experience both refuge and disturbance: we are shown a county's stars

Heidi Williamson

which ranges from playful lyrics to the apocalyptic masterpiece ‘Canto de guerra de las cosas’

Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Troubador Subtle and daringFinal Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. Channelling the tropes of slasher cinema, Mills interrogates survival, gendered violence and the figure of the 'Final Boy' as both myth and mirror. These poems are sharp edged, sexually charged, and formally agile, moving between elegy, confession and cultural critique with electric precision. Through