Dialectic of the Flesh by Roz Kaveney

The day you change, like any other day,is sunny or is rainy. You get upand put your new clothes on, and brush your hairand put that on as well. Your breasts are sore–they still have stitches. And you drink your tealike any other day, the day you change. From “23” Dialectic of the Flesh brings together Roz Kaveney’s poems on queer and trans experience, poems which run the gamut of emotions, from exuberant and witty celebrations of the joy of sex to elegies of murdered friends, written for Transgender Day of Remembrance. This collection showcases Kaveney’s versatility, including both her carefully-constructed formal work as well as free verse poems, and also features two ambitious long poems: a commemoration of Stonewall and a poem addressed to her younger male self from her adult female present. Roz Kaveney is a middle-aged trans woman living and working in London as a writer, critic, and activist. A regular contributor to The Independent, The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement