My Darling from the Lions cross dressing They're both ten

They're both ten

Ross stumbles across a "lost" work by an unknown author and his quest to identify the mystery writer and achieve the glory of scholastic tenure unveils increasingly bizarre and unbalanced facts about a group of writers who in the 1970s and 1980s broke new ground in the creation of a gay literary sensibility

000-word draft in 1979

seeking guidance

My Darling from the Lions cross dressing They're both tenShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionShortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 'This debut collection is the modern poetry we need to read right now' Stylist'An enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.' Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Beautiful. I'm so glad it was written.' Hollie McNish, author of Nobody Told MeRachel Long's much