Beginner’s pluck: Debut poetry collection of Gustav Parker Hibbett

This superb collection examines what it feels like when you don’t fit in; whether that’s through blackness or queerness, and it does so in the most inventive and lyrical way

Gustav Parker Hibbett: 'We gestated at Alabama but found a home in the poetry scene in Dublin.'

From aged nine, Parker spent their childhood in New Mexico. Educated through financial aid at a private school they felt different.

“It was complicated,” they say.