Inspired by Keats’ unfinished Hyperion epics, Spencer Wood’s fain explores the world-reshaping power of queer intimacy. Accompanied by beguiling semi-abstract line drawings by Ben Skinner, these devotional poems are unabashedly romantic without becoming saccharine. Ethereal domestic bliss clashes with apocalyptic anxiety; the grotesquerie of dead rats brushes up against the innuendo of back garden ejaculation. Messy, tender, modern and timeless, Wood’s voice imagines new forms of belonging.
“Subtle humour, vivid imagery, sweet and dark as treacle. An eco-erotic joy to read.”
Harper Walton, author of Midnight Movies
‘These affecting poems, so alert to language and to image, perform the work of husbandry – in every sense of the word – in their domestic spaces of home and garden, where joy, love and care are housed within a precious and precarious safety.’
Meryl Pugh, author of Feral Borough
About the author
Spencer Wood is a writer and facilitator living in Leeds. He is a 2026 New Northern Poet, and his poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as And Other Poems, Fourteen Poems, Broken Sleep’s Masculinity Anthology, a Verve Poetry Prize Anthology, Strix and Modern Queer Poets among others. Spencer’s creative non-fiction has been published in Hinterland and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Spencer works for The Reader and leads shared reading groups in criminal justice settings across the north. fain is his debut poetry pamphlet.
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a cover illustrated by Ben Skinner. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
Inspired by Keats’ unfinished Hyperion epics, Spencer Wood’s fain explores the world-reshaping power of queer intimacy. Accompanied by beguiling semi-abstract line drawings by Ben Skinner, these devotional poems are unabashedly romantic without becoming saccharine. Ethereal domestic bliss clashes with apocalyptic anxiety; the grotesquerie of dead rats brushes up against the innuendo of back garden ejaculation. Messy, tender, modern and timeless, Wood’s voice imagines new forms of belonging.
“Subtle humour, vivid imagery, sweet and dark as treacle. An eco-erotic joy to read.”
Harper Walton, author of Midnight Movies
‘These affecting poems, so alert to language and to image, perform the work of husbandry – in every sense of the word – in their domestic spaces of home and garden, where joy, love and care are housed within a precious and precarious safety.’
Meryl Pugh, author of Feral Borough
About the author
Spencer Wood is a writer and facilitator living in Leeds. He is a 2026 New Northern Poet, and his poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as And Other Poems, Fourteen Poems, Broken Sleep’s Masculinity Anthology, a Verve Poetry Prize Anthology, Strix and Modern Queer Poets among others. Spencer’s creative non-fiction has been published in Hinterland and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Spencer works for The Reader and leads shared reading groups in criminal justice settings across the north. fain is his debut poetry pamphlet.
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a cover illustrated by Ben Skinner. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
