Alles über Ruth – und seitdem, das sind Gedichte über eine kreuz und queer ineinander verliebte Jugendclique um Madeleine, die Queenie, Tom & Enno und die Caven, voll Sommer, Sonne und Sex.
Centred on a sudden accidental death - its shocking actuality, the aftermath, the admin - Kathy Pimlott's third pamphlet is an honest, lyrical and nuanced journey through the complexity of bereavement.
'But back to the summer day the spikegrazed my brother's scalp: I slept beside himin his racing car bed and my father woke meand slapped my face, thinking, I assume, of sex,whereas I was already thinking about death.