Cover art design by @Litarnes

BEAST AT EVERY THRESHOLD

Finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

Poetry, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022
$17.95 CA / $14.95 US

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of “otherness” and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocity—and in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the "Beast at Every Threshold."

Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee’s poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.

Cover art design by Ryookyung Kim

OUR BODIES & OTHER FINE MACHINES, SPECIAL EDITION

Poetry, San Press at Teh People Studio, 2021
$25 CA

A survival manifesto and celebration song both, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee, special edition, is reimagined as both poetry collection and art object.

Featuring never-before-seen poems and re-interpreted older poems, this edition asks us to consider what it means to exist in bodies that are pathways to extremes of grief and joy. Illustrating the body as a site of resistance, lineage, and testimony, this collection invites you to explore both the tremendous suffering and radiant possibilities of living: “watch me swallow / the hardest thing / my body has made / & live.”