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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
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 in breast butter roux, with mirror croutons scattered on a bed of pearls - for dessert we've gold-leaf Princess cake and echo wine. I've got the candles lit, don't you worry about a thing. Open your mouth now, Daddy. Belle appétite.P.S. Thanks 🦖 … Continue reading Reading: How Easy It Is to Make a Ghost (Stand 18.4)
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
11:18
Frost's fossilized fame came from sibilant, bullshitRobert Frost, dead and buried, well what else is he going to be, scattered like a snowswirl?Robert FrostRobert Frost, yes, I feel better. Softly sweeping sedges. Years to go. Snow. Pre-frost, intimate gathering readying for calcification. He came in so sweetly. The point of controlled chaos. The, this he … Continue reading 11:18
25/12/2020
I was burrowing for love in a desert, digging all night, my claws got smooth on the sand, a long uninterrupted line of keening - I made a knife out of sand, I bid you come on over, come dig for the Danube, the great reset, the cactus milk, come show me your blood from … Continue reading 25/12/2020
Reading Sean Bonney with Dana (Blade Pitch Control Unit)
Join Dana in a sight reading exploration of Sean Bonney's 2005 work Blade Pitch Control Unit. Recorded in four sessions from 9-13th November, 2020. Features some tired arguments, impromptu uses of wiki, and the general sense there's still a lot more homework to do.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abCI9nKii58
