Transposium

<p><em>The body is an outpouring / of humours, and fluids, and grief. To love is to heave that body against a foreign shore / and hope for the best.</em> — from ‘You are . . . ERYXIMACHUS’</p> <p>Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova’s <em>Transposium</em> adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, <em>Les Misérables</em> slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers.</p> <p>Shameless, witty and hot with curiosity, these poems are preoccupied with the refashioning of gender, logic, language and form. Through relentless cross-examination of Socrates and associates, Yourukova combines reckless affection for the past, and a shimmering spectrum of anxieties around an uncertain future.</p> <p>Alternately intellectual and irreverent, this collection is a playful take on the concept of the dialectic, weaving across text and time and the aching yawn of distance between us.</p>