Description
Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott.
Structured in three parts – ‘Boy’, ‘Youth’ and ‘Man’ – Manatomy interrogates how the experiences of growing up gay in a homophobic world and in rural millennial England affect a gay man’s relationships with himself, his partners, the LGBTQ+ community and the wider world.







Fresh Out of Dragonflies
The Silvering
Strong in the Rain
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Insistence
A Quarter of an Hour
Third World Girl: Selected Poems [with live readings DVD]
The Handle of the Door