Thursday, 3 May 2012

The Ballad of CeCe McDonald

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Trigger warning: this poem discusses a transphobic attack and its aftermath. Certain verses also refer to prison rape. If either of these th...
Monday, 23 April 2012

NaPoWriMo Poem Twenty-Three: Hey, AJ, what's up?

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I sit down and my stomach flips the way it did on Spuggy's Bridge years ago on the run to Jarrow breathlessness with every step...
Sunday, 22 April 2012

NaPoWriMo Poem Twenty-Two: May 'n' the Abu, a Hay(na)ku

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May: I deport. You, May? Not! *    *    * Look, don't judge me, I'm three poems behind here! This is inspired by the prompt f...

NaPoWriMo Poem Twenty-One: The Body of the Enemy

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You tell me that you're zen and all we have to do is wait for the body of our enemy to wash by on the river. You tell me that every...

NaPoWriMo Poem Twenty: Ezra Pound Guest-Edits Nuts Magazine

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The tedium of pages and pages of boobs, free-floating innuendo-lodestones orbiting the radio-wave ghost-laugh of Sid James. *        *...
Thursday, 19 April 2012

NaPoWriMo Poem Nineteen: An Absolutely Commonplace Apocalypse

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There were coronal mass ejections: phone signals were patchy and those of us with analogue TVs cursed like dinosaurs stepping in tar pits...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

NaPoWriMo Poem Eighteen: CN, Tanita, Dido, Ludwig, Annie

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The singer's voice is neither male nor female, a whisky sweet as mead and smokey as the Romeo and Juliets I chomped when I was trying...