By Megan Thomas
Another excellent, slightly strange, experimental work to come out of Prototype Publishing, Pleasure Beach was (ahem) a pleasure to read for Buzz Magazine. Snippets of my review below – head to the link in my bio for the full version.
Palmer crafts an altogether fantastic queer love story from a single day in Blackpool circa 1999: an impressive feat, an ambitious homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses, and an exemplar of what literary modernism is all about.
The chosen structure, which reads as a hybrid of poetry and prose, accentuates the themes and imagery that Palmer has captured. In many ways, it reflects not only the conflicted state of mind and blooming sexuality of the characters, but the sea-like ebbs and flows of life.
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