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WINNER OF THE 2022 RELIT AWARD FOR POETRY
With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places.
Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing―Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. No subject―grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence―is off limits.
A poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better.
"Charlie Petch's Why I Was Late is a poetic debut with the wisdom of a sage and the emotional range of an expert comedian. Do yourself a favor and read this book. This is a master at work."―Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, is launching in June 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and were longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021.
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Transilience
Trans is waiting for your name to get called,
while the teams go ahead
and play the game on top of you.
Genderfluid is the shiny new car
that your parents think is a wreck
and will never let out of the driveway.
Non-Binary is rehearsing how to exit the bathroom stall
in a way that will get you past the four men surrounding it,
but not incite their violence.
Gender non-conforming is running up to cis people, asking
"Is this how you felt in your skin this whole time?"
while they stare at your high five until your arm withers.
Transmasculine is walking well behind women
so they don't get worried, while evading men
who follow you too closely.
Fluidity is taking out the pin
from the "how can I help you?" grenade
and hearing the answer click on retail floors.
Coming out is revisiting the library in your brain,
and closing so many books that had remained open
waiting for answers.
Trans is whispering to your child self,
"I'm so sorry I didn't listen to you
let's give you the life you deserve."
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