ARGONAUT BOOKS

In 2015, Welsh poet R.J. Arkhipove gained international acclaim when he penned a series of poems using his own blood as ink in protest of the blood donor ban on men who have sex with men. Five years on, in the midst of a pandemic, governments across the UK announced the discriminatory policy would finally be lifted. To commemorate the occasion, Zuleika is republishing Arkhipov's 'blood poems' in a new paperback edition. Imagined as a living, breathing, pulsing body of work through which the poetry of blood courses, 'Visceral' is an exploration of our life essence. With his constrained and conc...Read More