Father Myself by James McDermott
Published 20th February 2025. Available for pre-order.
In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.
In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.
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