White / Other Alice Frecknall turns a simple book into

turns a simple book into a gem as precious as the large red ruby that glowed on the Prince’s sword-hilt

happy to roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory

A father bathes his son in ice water

Georg Heym

White / Other Alice Frecknall turns a simple book intoWhite Other is a strange hybrid beast part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working class other within neo liberal culture. White Other is memoir remixed, cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled, socially