Holy Boys

The new poetry collection from Andrés N. Ordorica (picked as an Observer Best Debut Novelists for 2024), Holy Boys seeks to address the echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows of unspeakable desires and all-consuming longing. This collection is for readers who appreciate language and the multilingual power of poetry.

About the author

Andrés N. Ordorica (He/him) is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know and novel How We Named the Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Morley Lit Prize, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of the Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists.

Product details

• Authors: Andres N. Ordorica, Andrés N. Ordorica
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781846976889
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-688-9
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POETRY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Social issues & processes, Poetry by individual poets, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Sexual Behaviour, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Poetry / poems by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems