PreviewsJes Battis
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I Hate Parties
Jes Battis
Filled with plenty of cats and pop culture references, and including forms such as the sestina, the villanelle, and the pantoum, these poems explore growing up queer and autistic and awkward in small-town British Columbia, and adjusting to an adult life of academic politics and pandemic relationships in Saskatchewan.
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The Winter Knight
Jes Battis
By turns charming and poetic, action-packed and meditative, sexy and profound, this fabulously fun queer urban fantasy crosses a detective story with Arthurian legends reborn in Vancouver’s academic world, a world where runes become computer code and queens are sessional university instructors. Hildie, the Valkyrie assigned to investigate the horrific killings of knights, and Wayne, known in previous lives as Sir Gawain, now an anxious, autistic first-year college student, lead the way in this exploration of how one can break free of the myths one is born into.
