Father Myself, Paperback/James McDermott

In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself. Publisher: Nine Arches Press Author(s): James McDermott Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 140 x 217 x 12 Cover type: Paperback / softback