Cupid, Grown by Adam Panichi Luke Wright Edited by award-winning poet Vic

Edited by award-winning poet Vic Pickup

In this way the stowaway’s story and the telling of it merge in a fragmented

silence sings louder than speech

In the first part of the collection

Cupid, Grown by Adam Panichi Luke Wright Edited by award-winning poet VicCupid, Grown by Adam Panichi is an exploration of queer identity, desire, and memory, rendered with sharp lyricism and cinematic intimacy. Moving between past and present, myth and the everyday, the collection navigates the tensions of masculinity, tenderness, and self recognition. Panichi unravels personal and cultural histories where gender is both inherited and reshaped, love is a battleground and a sanctuary, and language itself becomes a site of