Everything Everything: a millennial lgbt love story

By Max Wallis

Award-winning poet Max Walis is the author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love. He has created poetry for Samsung, Burberry, Topman, and Vogue and was once Grindr's poet in-residence. His poetry films have won major fashion film awards. Everything Everything is his second book. From threesomes, fights and one-night stands that end up lasting a year, Everything Everything takes you deep inside the world of millennial sexuality. The book draws back a curtain and gives an intense, sometimes overwhelming, shot of reality. 'I've waited a long time for this, an astonishing new voice. Max Wallis writes from the depths of 2am, with a magnificent ruthless stare into the heart of love, sex, joy and regret. These are gorgeous, supreme poems whose unflinching honesty cuts right down deep to the bone. Read this book.' - Russell T Davies Tender, funny, tough and sad, Max Wallis is writing 21st-century love poems that could have been written anywhere: "If only there were things/I hadn't said." He writes, "Or better yet. Things I had." - John McAuliffe Love poetry is nothing without agony. Max Wallis writes out the agony of desire and inevitable disappointment, alongside the hedonism, regret, boredom, pleasure and recklessness that other writers exclude in favour of Beauty. And yet the poems are exquisite, beautiful and rapturous even in the morning - post-harm, post-gratification and post-comedown. Here is an insight into intimacy and what it means in a life that is centred around Capitalism, money, objectification, magazine covers and cum. I have fallen in love with these poems in the same way one becomes hooked on the night before knowing it all becomes oblivion. We know it's coming, we know it when it comes, we are alive in the moment and the experience is as real as it is fleeting and imperfect. One of the most authentic voices in contemporary poetry today and we must adore him. - Melissa Lee-Houghton Urgent, brilliant and fresh, reading these poems, I lost myself for a while. It turned me on and it made me feel a new type of sad experiencing the cool loneliness of these poems. After, I felt as if I had lived another life for a while. Some people don't understand how precious that is for our creative selves, to escape, be someone else. And then mourn, in a way, what could have been. It's like a gift of longing. This book is perfectly timed. People will love it. I predict great things for this. I'm excited. - Bobby Parker

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D7TLRRHN
• ISBN13: 9798329061468
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 30 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"