Sugar Water
is "a queer morphology of a liquid lyric", telling of dangerous lovers, surviving sexual violence, reclaiming one's sensuality and inheriting trauma.
In this debut, Cohen attempts to bend the materiality of language while conjuring up fragrant, hostile and delicious imagery at every turn.
"These poems are bold, off-kilter and surreal examinations of queer life and desire..." - Richard Scott, author of
Soho
(Faber)
"These are poems to float on, to drown in[...] To read
is to savour the spirit of what is fresh in current poetry." -Ella Duffy, author of
Rootstalk
(Hazel Press) and
New Hunger
(Smith Doorstop)