Trust Fall by William Gee PRE-ORDER #giftideas whilst protest actions entwine themselves

whilst protest actions entwine themselves around judicial statements

Written while working as Dundee’s first Makar (official laureate) from 2013-18

here is a bold choir of voices demanding independence and celebrating their hard-won power

artist Nano Reid’s paintings

so when the whole forest turns to crystalline ice

Trust Fall by William Gee PRE-ORDER #giftideas whilst protest actions entwine themselvesPublished 23rd March. Available for pre order. Trust Fall is an exhalation of loss; a lean into frailty and bodily abandon. In the language of stomach and synapse, Gee maps a path towards accepting unwellness. These poems interrogate the role masculinity, capital and love can play when imposed upon by chronic illness. As each new movement writhes with pain, is abject with grief, it also sings of a deeper beauty to be found in being loved at ones most