Act Cute
$20.38
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2025
Summary
The second poetry collection from award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker.
In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and queer desiring. Shifting between autofictive address and canonical personae, the structural codes of romantic drama uneasily frame the poet-as-actor through five sections, titled ‘Audition Sid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760995157 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760995150 |
| Author: | Andrew Sutherland |
| Publisher: | Fremantle Press |
| Imprint: | Fremantle Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 139mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
‘It is a rare book of poetry that makes you feel as though you are being reconstituted as, reading, you assemble its words into lines - Act Cute is one of these. Perhaps because of its focus on character in all forms, but particularly from the perspective of the actor and theatre-maker.’ Caitlin Maling
‘Act Cute alchemises the body personal into the political - revealing the blurred lines of play and power, desire and distance, meet cutes and lonely aesthetics; the exquisite contradictions we carry, refracting the ordinary into a collection of poems that is startling, luminous, and deeply alive.’ Sara M. Saleh
Andrew Sutherland
Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is an awardwinning Queer poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. His work draws upon intercultural and Queer critical theories, and the viral instabilities of identity, pop culture and the autobiographical self.
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