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Instead of Ego II: Acrostic Aftermaths & Other Poems

Gareth Farmer

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English
Broken Sleep Books
30 November 2025
Gareth Farmer's What's That: Instead of Ego II - Acrostic Aftermaths & Other Poems is a structurally intricate and linguistically dense exploration of autism, neurodivergence, and the burdens of normativity. Centred on a series of acrostic poems that extract meaning from clinical and social terminology, the collection refracts lived experience through formal constraint, lexical play, and ironic defamiliarisation. Farmer navigates states of overload, rejection, mimicry, and disassociation with a restless intelligence that interrogates both language and the systems it reflects. 'Sensory environments must be disabling, otherwise this dissenting is disingenuous', Farmer states, distilling the work's confrontation with the contradictions of institutional legibility. What emerges is a poetics of embodied resistance-cognitive, affective, and unapologetically complex.
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Imprint:   Broken Sleep Books
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   104g
ISBN:   9781917617420
ISBN 10:   1917617429
Pages:   68
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gareth Farmer is an autistic poet, academic and teacher. He has published numerous academic articles, essays and chapters of books on experimental writing - mainly poetry - as well as on neurodivergence and autism. He has published several pamphlets and books of poetry, the most recent of which was Kerf (87 Press, 2022).

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