Mother Night

Mother Night is a hallucinogenic journey across a city with too many alleyways and across a life surviving childhood sexual assault. Forming a nocturnal séance, Serge Neptune resurrects abusive old lovers and ghosts of the queers of the past - conjures men in cars and men in bedrooms - providing them invitation and shelter, or casting them to stormy waves. In a book of many types of darkness - across poems of vulnerability and harm - what persists in Mother Night is its celebration of resilience, what shines brightest is the many ways it reaches for the light.

Auteur

Serge Neptune has been called 'the little merman of British poetry'. He is a Faber Academy alumnus and a queer neuro-divergent poet based in London. His first pamphlet, These Queer Merboys, was published with Broken Sleep (2020). His work was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and the Winchester Poetry Competition. Several poems appeared in The North, Propel, The Rialto, Banshee, Magma, Fourteen Poems, and elsewhere.