unweather in me

Dillon Jaxx

ISBN: 9781916760400

eISBN: 9781916760417

Price: £11.99

Publication date: 2nd July 2026

Format: Paperback / eBook

Territories: World

Extent: 72pp

DCF: Poetry Collections

The debut poetry collection by Dillon Jaxx, unweather in me, is a mixtape from an eighties childhood that moves between requiems for a dead brother, anthems for the queer self, and love songs for a body sabotaging itself and its keeper through chronic illness.

In Jaxx's bold and precise poems of absence and discovery, surreal and sometimes grotesque family portraits are painted through the changing weather of time, with humour, irony, and love.

Dillon Jaxx is a queer, chronically ill writer. Born and raised in bilingual northern Italy with an Italian dad and English mum, word play started early. Their work explores the aftermath of trauma, illness and grief as well as the meaning of home, family, identity and language. Their work has been published in Poetry Wales, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review and The Alchemy Spoon amongst others. Dillon has been placed and commended in numerous competitions in the last three years and won the Rebecca Swift Writing Prize 2022, the Brotherton prize 2024, the Wolverhampton poetry competition 2024, the Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2025, the Artemisia Arts Prize 2025.

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