Sholto Buck: Light Film

Light Film explores the cinema of heartache. Thorough in its quest for drama, this collection of poems threads a personal narrative through kaleidoscoping imagery, in turns erotic, violent, and contemplative. Performing a shifting subject position, the speaker of this book finds humour, shelter, and emotional truth in fantasy, even as reality collapses into his desires.

Sholto Buck is a poet and artist living in Melbourne, Australia. He has been commissioned to write poems for the National Gallery of Victoria, and for ‘Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days’, at Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, and UNSW Gallery, Sydney. His first book, In the printed version of heaven, was published by Rabbit in 2023.