Winner of the Melita Hume Prize, Rebecca Close's debut collection works through a range of forms associated with transmission: from Roman georgics to the lesbian manifesto, from the satellite radio wave to computer programming code.
Conceived as a queer manifesto for reimagining traditional poetic form, it channels the historical formlessness and electricity of queer and lesbian sexual pleasure. The poems explore sex as connection, sexual fantasy as urban transformation, and LGBTQI+ literary citation as a form of home-making. Formally adventurous and politically charged, Valid, Virtual, Vegetable Reality announces a bold new voice at the intersection of poetry, art and queer theory.