Beyond
14 Sep 2020 Category: erasure poetry
Taken from Crack Magazine, February 2020.
This one took a lot of digital manipulation. I wanted to break out of the usual black to reflect the content. This was the original in context:
Rocket
12 Sep 2020 Category: poetry
shot
into
inferno
propels
bodies
beyond
our
.
cargo:
food
tools
hope
Show and Tell
04 Sep 2020 Category: poetry
Miss Morris asked us to bring something special
in and talk about it in front of the class
for everyone else to share and enjoy
and so in this cardboard box I have brought
the first rays of morning and if I open it
this classroom, with its peeling walls,
its desks engraved with cramped insults
and declarations of love from children
who have now become adults, its blutacked
posters of the alphabet, all we can see will
transform into gold and all our...
Costal walks
02 Sep 2020 Category: photos
I’m delighted to have a poem over at Mineral Lit. It’s a very strange one called Travelling.
Missed Connection
25 Aug 2020 Category: poetry
Were you the stranger dressed in electricity
who floated above the tarmac without contact,
who smiled in morse code, smelled of lavender
and engine oil, who spoke in rapid static bursts
which I understood to be secrets never spoken?
Did you splinter my sternum, peer inside to find
distant storms and lightning brewing? Did you fold
yourself into the air and vanish, entering the unseen
creases of reality as easily as catching a bus?
Were your irises burnt into the pavement for days?
Please respond to me if...
Advert Break
20 Aug 2020 Category: this was meant to be the future
The opening shot is a still lake, first thing in the morning. The sun has just started to beam down on the water. It is a mirror, reflecting the perfect blue sky. There’s no clouds. Not here. The lake is surrounded by pine trees, all pristine as if they have been copy and pasted. There’s a pier that juts out from the bottom of the frame into the lake, with a small row boat tied to it. The boat has a cloth tarpaulin over it and oars sticking out. A couple of boards are missing on the pier. Paint on...
Silhouettes
10 Aug 2020 Category: poetry
Drunk dancers stumbling over earth,
we expect to leave no trace behind.
After centuries of exponential progress
the sudden fury of suns is released.
Afterwards, on bricks still standing
we are etched silhouettes embracing.
Our outlines entwined, two dimensions,
diminished by the judgement of light.
75 years later, we still hear the echoes.
Growing summer
05 Aug 2020 Category: photos
Throughout the lockdown, our allotment has been a place to escape to, a little patch of ground we can control and shape. Now our hard work has paid off. Each time we visit there are more vegetables and fruit to harvest, more new growth, more life exploding everywhere.
Silicone Song
24 Jul 2020 Category: erasure poetry
Taken from a conversation with Holly Herndon in Bristol In Stereo magazine, May 2019. Which means I can link to this excellent song- her album is some of the most thrilling music I have listened to in the last few months.
I’m also really honoured to have a poem in the latest issue of Marble Poetry. Check it out here.
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