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  • 8 August 20209 August 2020
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Review in Poetry Wales

I’ve reviewed two collections for the Summer 2020 issue of the excellent Poetry Wales: Matthew Haigh’s Death Magazine (Salt Publishing, 2019) and Roberto Pastore’s Hey Bert (Parthian, 2019). Here’s a couple of teasers: On Death…

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  • 22 February 20189 August 2020
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Writing while Deviant for The Rumpus!

As if interspecies paranormal relationships weren’t enough, I’ve written for The Rumpus on the parallel insecurities in writing and kink. “Playing A Part: Imposter Syndrome in Kink and Writing” is an exploration of the pressures we…

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  • 19 July 20179 August 2020
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Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together

Poetry publishing can be fun, rewarding and inspiring, but it can also prove tough, isolating and tiring. With that in mind, I’ve written this short piece for the wonderful BookMachine about the need for poetry…

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  • 6 January 20179 August 2020
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New Year’s fear and Quantum Hotness

There’s a brilliant vignette in Adam Warren’s graphic novel Empowered in which the insecure hero’s boyfriend Thugboy lets us in on his theory of quantum hotness: It’s a prime cut of comic book truth that’s…

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  • 31 May 20169 August 2020
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Poets Are So Excited – but does anybody care?

You can’t sit on your laurels as a writer, they say. Get out there on social media, they say. Plug your work. Brag your achievements. Promote promote promote. And they’re right. Sort of. Poetry doesn’t…

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  • 5 April 20169 August 2020
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What a piece of work: poetry and technophobia

About a month ago, a contact on LinkedIn posted a link to a TED talk by writer Oscar Schwartz, titled “Can a computer write poetry?” Schwartz is one of the co-creators of the site Bot…

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  • 14 March 20169 August 2020
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Does poetry need genre boundaries?

In a book shop, poetry is at most divided by single author v anthology, or by time period. Most times, it is not divided at all, simply arranged alphabetically by author, which means unless you…

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  • 25 February 20169 August 2020
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Bad ad poetry? HIRE POETS.

Living in London, we’re surrounded by TFL’s abominable Travel Better London posters, with their godawful doggerel. First, you spot one and sigh gently to yourself. Then you notice another. And another. Ye gods, they’re all…

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  • 17 February 20169 August 2020
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The poetry of choice, or, bookshop blues

A confession. I hate shopping for poetry. At least in physical shops. Don’t get me wrong. I love and adore bookshops. They are a joy and absolutely crucial to the publishing industry. And I love…

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