I’m totally killing your vibes

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Bloodaxe Books, 2022

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'Warner’s dexterous overlaying of tone paints our multi-channel reality... his iridescence of feeling stokes the life force of this book.'

- Sylee Gore, Poetry Foundation

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‘There is a breathtaking sense of formal ingenuity, irreverent wit, and unapologetic erudition in Warner’s lines... poems that are both ludic and sincere; manic and darkly comic; subversive and deeply vulnerable.’

– Shalini Sengupta, Poetry Book Society Bulletin.

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[Publisher's text]

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I’m totally killing your vibes is one-part phantasmagoria, one-part brutal document, with equal measures of irony and sincerity.

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It is a book compulsively drawn to a world in which identity and performance have become indistinguishable, where the squelch and seep of feelings frustrate our safety nets of logic and ethics, and violence and inadequacy are so often the corollaries of love.

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I’m totally killing your vibes is a book of poems concerning the exuberant performance, and the manic dissolution, of the self. It moves through the slow, fragmented dissolve of a relationship, via a tableaux vivant of assorted, itinerant characters, and an extended, darkly comic dialogue with the feedback of literary, academic, and everyday life.

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A final, long-form prose poem extends the book’s interrogation of consumption as our contemporary mode of self-construction, of masculinity, and of desire.

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For more information, and to read an extract, please click here.

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