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'Discipline'
My first short story
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March 2023
Poetry is not the world
A poem for World Poetry Day
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A Napoli
Four Days, Three Nights, and a Disordering of the sense
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December 2022
November 2022
Ten Tips for Writing Around a Day Job
How to commit to writing while also letting go.
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"C'mere" — a tribute to Bernadette Mayer
The poet Bernadette Mayer is dead. I am going through a break up. I go to airdrop this photo of the Mayer poem to my laptop and the first suggestion is…
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The Head of the Hole with a Halo
a new poem
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October 2022
A Moment's Breath
On ill health, crisis, Eastenders, sea urchin spines and those little moments where everything feels okay.
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The sky is dappled with small breaks of sun. The streets smell of piss.
On trying to write in Marseille
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September 2022
Holidays are the Practice of Indulgence without Direction
or: How Neesha and I used Dialectics to Disprove Frank O’Hara With This One Cool Trick
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SEE ME READ LONDON
Two articles and two events
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Falling for fits again
In celebration of layering
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