I Hate Parties Product Form:Paperback / softback the haplessness of old age

the haplessness of old age

an archbishop lost on the tundra ate his boots to survive and men living on dreams of riches grew old panning the creeks for gold

—Kevin Connolly

poignant and elegiac book

In 1999 Brad Cran exploded onto the Canadian literary scene with the release of Hammer & Tongs

I Hate Parties Product Form:Paperback / softback the haplessness of old ageDescription Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces. Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B side of growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary. From Scruff dates to mix tapes, Jes Battis cruises (and crashes) through wild feelings and minor catastrophes. Dipping readers into a world of missed connections, social disasters and life as a queer