HE’S SO MASC
Auckland University Press, March 2018

In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. HE’S SO MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character — pop star, actor, hitman, and much more. These are poems that delve into worlds of hyper-masculine romanticism and dancing alone in night clubs.

With its many modes and influences, HE’S SO MASC is an acerbic, acid-bright, yet unapologetically sentimental and personal reflection on what it means to perform and dissect identity, as a poet and a person.

Launch speech by Greg O’Brien.

Named one of New Zealand Herald‘s Best Books of 2018
Named one of The Spinoff‘s 20 Best Poetry Books of 2018

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