Released January 31st, 2022 // 42 pages // 978-1-915079-02-2
 
Hey Ho The White Swan By God I Am Thy Man is a culturally rich, beautifully furnished suite of poetry which recalls grand literary eccentrics like Beckett, Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Through classical scenes and moments of devilish intensity, Sam Quill writes with rare elegance and grace, in expectation of 'the plants his ashes sow in heaven.' A beguiling, often dazzling, first collection.
 
 
PRAISE for Hey Ho The White Swan By God I Am Your Man:
 
‘These beautiful poems do the most important thing - they risk something. There is something heroic about Quill’s utterly shameless love of language, brimming over, daring you to say that you’ve had your fill. Greedy in the best possible sense; for life, observed, pinned, transfigured and remade.’
   — Keiran Goddard, Votive
 
‘Quill’s poetry takes us on a literary journey into a dreamlike underworld, where only the deepest roots of nature will steady us. As our world flounders, this is a resonant and powerful debut.’
   — Jennifer Edgecombe, The Grief of the Sea
 
‘Sam Quill’s poetry is taut, formally accomplished and incandescent with rage. ‘And / what can history do but turn itself in?’, he writes, and makes of that neither a rhetorical nor an open question, but the starting point for a probing and intelligent cross-examination of ‘the sense that things are things, and matter’. To compel without chivvying, to be dense without being overloaded, to cry out against abuses (as in the ambitious long poem MILLENIUM: A Vision of Europe) without barking at the moon: this is the good stuff, for heavens’ sake get in on it.’
   — John Clegg, Pinecoast