Wrestling Emily Dickinson

The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Outside the Walls

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Another cafe where all seems to be at peace, the civilised side of the shield of Achilles, where frothy, caramel-flavoured confections are...
Saturday, 12 January 2013

You must be certain of the devil: on anger, art, and supermassive sense-of-humour shutdowns

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I said to myself, last night, that I wasn't going to write about the Suzanne Moore thing. Partly it's because Stavvers at Another An...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Daily Pages: Voices

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( So. Er...hi. I'm back. Sort of. As some of you may know, I got a little bit sick with pneumonia earlier in the year and had a long hia...
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...
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