Keep It Regular
Catharsis poetry has its place, and what I think of as head music poetry, like-wise has some value. But there can be a strain of poetry that is both intellectually and emotionally informed that neither has to be lacking in backbone or…
Ways to approach story structure are always something I am looking at, and not because I am looking for a formula, rather I am looking to bust apart any tendency towards the formulaic in my work. Understand your enemy. Anything that has…
punching late punching underweight punch and contemplate punching clocks party punch drunk punch and judy why are you on the defensive? was it really so offensive? trapped in the loops trapped in the patterns acting as if anything matters when you don’t…
Dreamsoup head, she lifts it and the pearlescent drops fall from her hair like liquid mercury. Her eyes are alight with story, stacked layers of reality filtered through the retinal slice she had implanted fifteen years ago. Post Burn Paris is not…
Work quicker. Work harder. Work faster. Deadlines and headlines are how a lot of people manage their work – they are basically targets and goals that you have to hit. Painting a whole neighbourhood would be a main target, but if you…
you’ve never arrived and your illusion hasn’t shattered because it hasn’t mattered to anyone to take a hammer to it you are in shadow hidden from spotlights a whisper in a gallery but you lie to yourself piece together a life from…
Decay was a rudimentary excuse. A man sat there picking apart the cross-stitched home sweet home. The skull in the fire place wasn’t much of an explanation, nor would it have been an hour ago before the charred flesh crisped and peeled from…
gnomic palindromic we are crouched in the confines of ourselves trying to scream through the metal throat there are boots on necks there are needles in arms we were once gliding between stars light notions, frozen glacial pictures now we are developed…
Sometimes I think that writing about how bad news doesn’t inspire, and neither side of the political divide inspires, can mean that people then believe you have no notion of what might constitute a solution, whereas nothing could be further from the…
Perspective can spin a mundane day into something exciting – you would hope. I never needed drugs because I have a scary chemistry set between my ears that fuelled an imagination that could build a world for any purpose. I have always…