Anything That MovesFrom being caught having their first orgasm by their mums best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring a coveted invitation to a threesome with some elf fetishist neighbours, indie music darling (Xiu Xiu) Jamie Stewarts journey of fleshy self discovery and queer awakening makes for an extraordinary, cringy, unputdownable epic in miniature, burning always with

Gerald Dawe has published seven collections of poetry

On such matters

and therefore

tormented families or famously private writers

and he died forgotten and destitute

In this book he tells candidly of the challenges and rewards of the jazz life as well as the destructive aspects he has seen – especially racial discrimination and drugs

‘These chapters of ‘The World is a Wedding’ rank with the fiercest pages of de Quincey’s ‘Confessions of an English Opium Eater’

compassion and forgiveness

Al is haunted by his brother Will’s perfect new family and seeks in dangerous new friends what he needs from his lost kin

who attends one festival session after the other clutching a canvas bag which contains the labour of her life – an unsubmitted manuscript written and re-written until only the sentence ‘my body is a haunted house’ remains untouched

a founder member of the original Thornfield Poets workshop

sensual and plain