Deathless by Catherine Balaq PRE-ORDER Stephen Watts shifting identities

shifting identities

The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it

turns the wheel of western spirituality with equal parts western skepticism

’ – Niall Campbell

when aestheticism took on a more subversive role

Deathless by Catherine Balaq PRE-ORDER Stephen Watts shifting identitiesPublished 17th October 2024. Available for pre order. Sex and death are truisms. We begin through the act of one and the other is the ultimate exit. Deathless, Catherine Balaqs astonishing second collection, moves between the two, expanding on tropes of sexuality and creation acts with a core (spine?) of sonnets that speak back to their origins. Both traditional and modern, the poems in Deathless turn the male gaze into the female subject and