That’s right, I’m not dead. In fact, I never was. The body you grieved for so painfully at my open-casket funeral? A hyperrealistic waxwork dummy. The footage you watched, hand to mouth, of me being suffocated to death by an anteater after it mistook me for a mound? All done […]
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Tales from the Shipwreck (iii)
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Hi friends. I hope you’re keeping well amidst all the horrors. I just wanted to let you know that a new poem of mine has been published. You can read ‘Shadowplay’ in the citrusy latest issue of Lychee Rind right here. I wrote the first draft of this poem back […]
Keep readingPoetry Annotated: Six New Poems
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Keep readingNew Poems in Coffin Bell and In Parentheses
Poetry publications, as I learned this week, are like buses – you go months without a single glimpse of one, and then two come along at once. You know, like buses! What I’m saying is that I’ve recently had a couple of new pieces come out. On Tuesday, Coffin Bell […]
Keep readingIsolation Inspiration: Online Poetry Exercises for Lockdown
Hello friends. You don’t need me to tell you that we’re living through a very unusual time at the moment; things are strange and scary and unpredictable, and everybody has been affected in one way or another. As a doctoral student, I’m lucky in that my research generally involves a […]
Keep readingWorkshop Update 23/03/20
Everything is going a bit mental in the U.K. right now, isn’t it? And everywhere, I mean, but the U.K. right now specifically. It’s difficult to figure out what I should be doing right now – I’ve been working today on a post about writing exercises to try out in […]
Keep reading#VSS365: Round Up (Oct ’19 – Feb ’20)
I’ve heard it said that accountability is a great catalyst for motivation. If you’re striving to achieve something, letting the people around you know what that something is can drive you to work harder towards it. It’s good advice, which is why in the past I’ve announced my intention to […]
Keep readingTales from the Shipwreck (ii)
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Keep readingWriter’s Notes: A NaNoWriMo Autopsy
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