Hex and Other Poems

Winner of the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award 2022

Poetry Book Society Autumn 2022 Pamphlet Choice

"In Hex, pain and love are drawn into strange and complex association. The inferno of McCrae's metaphysical intelligence is matched only by his Dantesque formal skills." Sasha Dugdale

Shane McCrae is a writer celebrated for crafting a unique poetics, conversing deeply with canon while speaking in a voice unmistakably his own: postmodern and lyrical, estranged and hyperexact. Oceanic sentences deconstruct themselves on the fly, circling ideas to reach their nuclei. This new pamphlet is a powerful examination of race and where it lives, of American white supremacy, of art's collective consciousness, tapping into the timeless dialogues between art and mortality, power and personal identity. Hex and Other Poems is a whirlwind and a wake-up call: galvanising the reader, speaking new thought into being.