With thematic forbears in Genet, Cooper and Wojnarowicz, Devotionals looks at multiple forms of desire through both subjective and objective lenses. Lines are crossed, or unseen - and utterances, instant messages, and human senses interact to procure a new experience. Devotionals is all at once subversive, sexy, beautiful and strange.
Whale's debut poetry collection is charming, disarming. Perhaps my favourite part though was the story at the end, recounting his first online romance, something I closely identified with and made me reminisce my experiences of life online in the 2000s.