I Hate Parties: Poems

by Jes Battis

Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces.

Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B-side of growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary. From Scruff dates to mix tapes, Jes Battis cruises (and crashes) through wild feelings and minor catastrophes. Dipping readers into a world of missed connections, social disasters and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889714800
• ISBN13: 9780889714809
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 96 Pages