Kinder Parasites – Holly Moberley

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Kinder Parasites by Holly Moberley is a dazzling debut that detonates the boundaries of contemporary poetry. Maximalist, queer, and defiantly hybrid, this collection splices together the language of the internet age—memes, slogans, clickbait, and confessions—into a wild, glittering theatre of identity and desire.

Moberley’s voice is both restless and radically self-aware, traversing histories and mythologies with biting humor and emotional precision. Each poem reimagines what it means to exist—and to persist—within a culture obsessed with performance and spectacle. Between flashes of absurdity and bursts of surrealism lies something fiercely human: a longing for intimacy, continuity, and survival.

Rich with linguistic invention and cultural chaos, Kinder Parasites thrives in contradiction—tender yet sharp, chaotic yet deliberate, disarmingly funny yet deeply felt. It’s a manifesto of queer endurance and creative rebellion, a reminder that even in a hyper-mediated world, the personal remains political—and the poetic remains alive.

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