Half-Bads in White Regalia Verity Spott

Half-Bads in White Regalia Verity SpottCapturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming of age garnished with gaming, a doomed house in Happyland, and an electric slang all his own. Half Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.

The gangsters are threatening his cousin—a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as “Projects” and to others as “dickhead”—who is gagged and tied to a chair

some of them pushing words to their boundaries

It includes work from Argentina

Plus works by Liana Badr and Muhsin al-Ramli

and Kinsella is deeply conscious that poets have been

Here you will find simple advice about diet and fitness

white and Asian

Is the literary establishment still as dominated by men as it once was

worlds of memory and desire – in a vivid series of poems (“mapping home”) that

| A stick in mud’ or ‘to pass life scared | Of stillnesses’

about contemporary economies of capital

their influence