Acrobaleno (Rainbow) is a vibrant treat which uses colour as a lens through which to look at the sensual everyday. The ebb and flow of relationships is given to us in a full array of hues. There are charming moments where a lover “says goodbye in yellow”, and elsewhere, declarations of:  “I could peel you like a fruit”. Read the Italian and English alongside each other. 
 

Kissing Angles is a tribute to the complexities of relationships where past lovers, jealousy, and rivalry linger, and where fantasies in love collide with powerfully dark realities. Here we read about pregnancy, puberty, dates and love bites, but also about an SS mistress (‘The Liebling’), “blood clots” (‘The Wrestler and the Sailor’s Daughter’) and sex like “miming drowning” (‘Lads’).  Shocking, sexy, and unafraid.

Trouble sees lovers “making love on the fifth floor in an evening light as yolky as an afternoon” (‘Eastbourne’). These moments of delicate beauty shine amongst “incontinence pads” (‘Magnolia’) and “wonky” uteruses (‘Expecting, the Gourd’). This pamphlet speaks about love, sex and the body across ages – medieval and modern. At once romantic and ugly, this is a salty collection that exposes the bare spine of love, lust and romance, and takes immense pleasure in troubling these concepts.