books
Forthcoming: poetry pamphlet #2 Mother Night, due 2024 with the Emma Press
reviews
https://www.tentacularmag.com/issue-8-a/andre-bagoo
https://www.haranapoetry.com/v20-review-a-cataract-of-light
https://miingle.com/best-erotic-books-to-read-this-summer/
https://theeabsentee.com/2020/11/07/review-these-queer-merboys-by-serge-neptune/
https://eatthestorms.com/2021/01/26/these-queer-merboys-serge-neptune/
https://librarystaffpicks.wordpress.com/2020/07/06/poetry-roundup-3-january-june-2020/
praise for these queer merboys:
“In his debut chapbook, Serge ♆ Neptune cements his reputation as the Little Merman of British poetry. These are works of joyful, exuberant physicality, of metamorphosis and yearning. The poems take place in a dream-space of infatuation and memory which feels altogether alive and urgent – windows into our full complexity through a vigorously consistent central image. It is always thrilling to witness a writer finding their form and their passion – the leitmotifs you know they’re going to tap into forever, refine and make new, inexhaustible as the ocean. Serge ♆ Neptune does so here in poems that are funny, beautiful and enviably phrased and balanced. Even at their most troubled and moving they transfigure the saddest experiences into something dignified and powerful– something we can all use.” - Luke Kennard
“Rich and precise - a pamphlet that pulls you into its world, its heady mix of danger and desire, and bravely lays bare the guts, gore and beauty of being alive. These Queer Merboys broke my heart.” - Ella Frears
“Serge ♆ Neptune’s poems are alert to the blissful possibilities that queer desire unfolds as well as the challenges of living them out. Here ‘night sheds / its worm skin, its polluted armour’ but all is never quite as it seems. His mermen discover glittering surfaces but also dark, terrifying water. The tight focus of Serge’s attention, however, means his metaphors work in unison, their cumulative effect taking the reader ever deeper into a parallel universe imagined in vivid and thrilling detail.” - John McCullough
