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Review: Hannah Copley’s Lapwing sequence
Lapwing, otherwise known as Vanellus vanellus, otherwise known as pilfered from google images I'd never heard of a lapwing before I read the sequence described by Copley as 'part migraine, part eco, part macho, part etymo, part alco, part auto' - perhaps part testament to the eco element, part testament to my skill as a … Continue reading Review: Hannah Copley’s Lapwing sequence
Letters to Emily 3
Dear Emily,I'm hungry for my childhood - I want Angel Delight & Cadbury's trifles & Lyle's Golden Syrup straight out of the tin. To prevent myself from indulging this comfort-seeking impulse I think of a slave in a small room. A woman. She is stuck & her nipples are hooked up to sucking machines. They … Continue reading Letters to Emily 3
Letters to Emily 2
Dear Emily,"Hope" is the thing with feathers, you said. & No matter the driving wet - thunder - hissing wind - she refuses food. Urban birds are a little domesticated - we thunder ancestral homelands & spare reservations - branches & strips of green - why doesn't Hope slow her strut & head-tilt at the … Continue reading Letters to Emily 2
Self-portrait 2021 ½
July sweaty & fat. 9 days to British "Covid Freedom Day", not to be confused with Juneteenth - the ability to go to nightclubs & Touch vs. the Day former slaves heard the Master is Dead dead dead dead dead. [Pride rainbows & the NHS deleted] I guess it doesn't matter if you punch up … Continue reading Self-portrait 2021 ½
Letters to Emily
Dear Emily, This is my first time writing to you, and I am not altogether sure if you are meant to be dead or living upon receipt of this missive. I am reading CAConrad's Soma(tics) and you're in the one that got caught in the classroom, so I wondered if I'm bisexual and I wondered … Continue reading Letters to Emily
Ulysses p.45-47
Hello snacklings, yes, you are a legitimate snack. My friend (hello Alexis) showed me a Facebook group a while back called 'Forbidden Snaccs', full of cromchy and licky looking non-food items. The kind of thing that makes the usual Pica 'foods' - mud, clay, paper - look impressively foody. Giant, spiky gemstones. Metal railings. Lava … Continue reading Ulysses p.45-47
Mink Elegy
minks on baking trays snuggly sausage minkroll mink graves mass almond blossom grace mink mars mink blink mink hydrogen mink balloons floating up the earth mink moon mink powder sugar mink cocaine mink pillow talk mink downy mink soft snouty cloudy mink milky mink pretty mink opium smokium minkium cull mink not kill mink not … Continue reading Mink Elegy
Ways of Making Love (after Hera Lindsay Bird)
On a day of rest, after you've made dinner together, standing side by side in the kitchen peeling and shelling and stirring in silence, because you may not talk with your lying mouth, but you may smile, and sneak glances, and perceive through the steam her hair begins to catch at the neck, and turn … Continue reading Ways of Making Love (after Hera Lindsay Bird)
Self-portraits
Today I've been delving into the archives of my BA homework exercises and thinking about self-portraits. The exercise came up in 2018: What a well behaved poem! I think it has the hang of the English passive aggressive smile. I hate it. I hate it bigly. Some key points of interest before moving swiftly onwards: … Continue reading Self-portraits
Reading: How Easy It Is to Make a Ghost (Stand 18.4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRascvVRMw Happy V-Day Daddy, I've made you a dish of Masculinity Flambé
Patch Notes: Feb 2021
sneak peek Smaug 1.0 now onlineHow Easy It Is to Make a Ghost, a poetic response to Keith Douglas and Daddyology across spacetime now out in Stand 18.4 https://www.standmagazine.org/current-issue - thank you so much to the editors for believing in this work and clearing a path for it, thank you typesetter for your extra efforts … Continue reading Patch Notes: Feb 2021
