10 poems from warm blooded things 📕
(Nine Arches Press, 2021)
Pick of the Month – StepAway Magazine
Featured in A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine
Queer Men for Queer Literature Reading Group
– Lavender Menace Book Archive
“A distinctive vision” – Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times
“A triumphant call to love” – Roz Goddard
“A tender gift” – Liz Berry
“Vivid and unexpected journey” – Sabrina Mahfouz
“Marvellous” – Ian McMillan
“As gut-twisting as they are beautiful” – Helen Calcutt
“Made me want to write and live harder” – James McDermott
“The warm blood of living is pulsing in these pages” – Amy Sharrocks
Contents
Poems:
💽 hunger
💽 opulent monk
💽 night-walking in Exeter
💽 underground
💽 has it become any easier to love each other?
📼 look
📼 that night… / hold me warm blooded thing
💽 if this is all a story, why can’t it be a good one?
💽 listening to Cynthia Erivo cover Elvis Presley
Shaun Hill (b. 1996) is a poet, somatic educator, and working-class survivor of decades of multi-agency failings, living in the British Midlands. He's the author of warm blooded things (Nine Arches Press, 2021), A Mushroom Wastes Nothing (Substack, 2026), and the developer of Loop & Line: Experiments in Physical Thinking.
He’s over 40 poems into his second full-length collection, And Now The Body Speaks. He writes for the voices who will dance medicine twenty years from now: a taproot decompacting the soil of the unspeakable.