The second poetry collection from Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker.In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks...

The second poetry collection from Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker.

In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and queer desiring. Shifting between autofictive address and canonical personae, the structural codes of romantic drama uneasily frame the poet-as-actor through five sections, titled 'Audition Sides', 'you stop me at the airport and tell me that you love me', 'twink death in Europa!!', 'Wedding Scenes' and 'forgiveness'.

Author: Andrew Sutherland
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781760995157

About the Author
Sutherland, Andrew: - Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker creating work between Boorloo, Western Australia and Singapore. His work draws upon intercultural and Queer critical theories, and the viral instabilities of identity, pop culture and the autobiographical self. As a performance-maker, he has twice been awarded WA's Blaz Award for New Writing and makes up one half of independent theatre outfit Squid Vicious (@squidvicioustheatre). His recent performance works include 30 Day Free Trial, Poorly Drawn Shark, Jiangshi, Unveiling: Gay Sex for Endtimes and a line could be crossed and you would slowly cease to be, which was commissioned by Singapore's Intercultural Theatre Institute in 2019. As a poet, he was awarded Overland's Fair Australia Poetry Prize 2017 and placed third in FAWWA's Tom Collins Prize 2021. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction can be found in national and international literary journals and anthologies, including Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, Portside Review, 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse, Exhale: An anthology of Queer voices from Singapore, and Margaret River Press' We'll Stand in That Place, having been shortlisted for their 2019 Short Story Prize. He currently lives in Naarm (Melbourne) where they are a PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts.