Walking Contagions by Dale Booton Helen Tookey poetry and aphorisms that I

poetry and aphorisms that I published in early 2011

But there are still flashes of camaraderie

familial poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

all of God's creatures are here

Saskia McCracken

Walking Contagions by Dale Booton Helen Tookey poetry and aphorisms that IBeginning with a routine sexual health check up before delving into the depths of the 1980s, Walking Contagions explores the emerging AIDS crisis and the subsequent fear and loneliness that accompanied it. With a reflection on community and activism, these poems emphasise the stigmas around HIV AIDS while banishing the heteronormative expectations of adulthood and sexuality: Gay men are not old at thirty; even within a community, there can still be