Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Troubador ‘after the encounter of a

‘after the encounter of a harmonious man with himself’) which produces the lyrical line

with the image of a girl’s hand jutting up from cracks in the rubble

bringing the two together almost as one

Subtle and daring

Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Troubador ‘after the encounter of aFinal Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. Channelling the tropes of slasher cinema, Mills interrogates survival, gendered violence and the figure of the 'Final Boy' as both myth and mirror. These poems are sharp edged, sexually charged, and formally agile, moving between elegy, confession and cultural critique with electric precision. Through