Poof

<p><strong style=color: rgba(68 70 72 1)><em>Shortlisted for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance</em></strong></p><p>Part provocateur part seducer this young gay man's account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today.</p><p>Honouring poets of the past - Jean Genet Veronica Franco Euripides Hunter S. Thompson Oscar Wilde - and joining in their task of finding meaning in existence and the modern world Tolcher has produced a brazenly honest debut without precedent.</p><p>Through his writing he subverts his own shame weaponises it and positions himself as an anti-hero of our time right when we need him the most.</p><p>Following his humble beginnings as an outcast in the dreary outer suburbs of Brisbane and escalating into a Dionysian poetic and pornographic international climax <em>Poof </em>follows Tolcher's search for love and purpose as he is drawn to the beds of powerful sadistic men. If he can endure just a little longer a little more... will they love him?</p><p>In an age of victimhood Tolcher offers us a roadmap to empowerment and integrity as he pulls back the curtain on both our pride and our shame and shines a spotlight on a hidden history that has been erased time and again.</p>