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Father Myself OG25 James Holland has always recountedIn 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty year old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his fathers complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself. In clear sighted and often hard hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic documenting the experience