Rosewater

<p>In places raw sexy vulnerable and challenging Kaan K's debut poetry collection asks what it means to embody a border. </p><p>They dive deep into their Cypriot heritage - pondering their connection to an island with the world's only divided capital city. </p><p>They reflect on the divisions in their personal life - cultural spiritual sexual. Rosewater is a homage to trans tenderness a cry for connection and a search for hope joy and change.</p><p>The collection is roughly based on the theme The land isn't binary and neither am I. It's an exploration of what it means to be from a border town; from a country split in two as a wound of colonialism and war; and to be queer and trans in this context; it includes references to racism transphobia homophobia domestic abuse and intergenerational trauma; it speaks frankly about suicide in the trans community. It is also a collection about surviving about chosen family about finding home and joy. There are some explicit sex poems in there. Take gentleness while reading.</p>