Walking Contagions by Dale Booton Clara Daneri His many awards include The

His many awards include The Bellman Prize

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we recognize ourselves in these pages

restrained language carrying ideas with a metaphysical wit and seriousness

Walking Contagions by Dale Booton Clara Daneri His many awards include TheBeginning with a routine sexual health check up before delving into the depths of the 1980s, Walking Contagions explores the emerging AIDS crisis and the subsequent fear and loneliness that accompanied it. With a reflection on community and activism, these poems emphasise the stigmas around HIV AIDS while banishing the heteronormative expectations of adulthood and sexuality: Gay men are not old at thirty; even within a community, there can still be