‘Seasonal Cartoon’ is a draft poem I wrote, I think, about two years ago, originally with linebreaks. These were removed in order to make it a narrow, column-like paragraph, a shape it now seems to have lost through being copied between various documents. The title has also been revised a few times. Here’s the version […]
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Hong Kong Zuihitsu
I’m in Hong Kong working for a month and I’ve created a sort of daily mini-writing project to go along with it. It’s called Hong Kong Zuihitsu. (Digital phototouching credit: Someone who shall remain nameless).
The Mimic Octopus
The Mimic Octopus is a new anthology of the imitative and derivative from 13 Pages, edited by Richard Osmond and Will Harris, with illustrations by Aisha Farr. It includes a poem by Anthony Adler which mimics the form and content of my ‘Near Extremes’ poems from School of Forgery, as well as a contribution of […]
Retrospective: Medieval Welsh Translations on BODY
I’d like to write something every now and then about poems I’ve had published in the past, since at the time I hardly said anything, and because most of the online and offline publications that have posted or printed something of mine are well worth further exploration. BODY, for instance, is a seriously international publication […]
Pull Out All The Stops
**Update** Link to the poem read out on Radio 3 I’m peripherally involved in the South Bank Centre’s Pull Out All The Stops organ festival/extravaganza. I’ve written one poem which is currently on display in the Clore Ballroom as part of a free exhibition that runs until 13th April. It’s loaded into a typewriter! I’ll […]
The Harlequin, Issue 4
Five poems of mine are published online in the latest issue of The Harlequin. Here’s the optional commentary track: Ash is the third of four ‘between-element’ poems to be published. The first two were Dust in The New Statesman and Steam in The White Review. Ash is the element between fire and air, and like […]
Dr Fulminare has to go somewhere on the front cover of Coin Opera 2. So I started drawing him in Flash. The right-most one is where I’ve ended up. Could be worse, I guess.
Version 2 of the cover for Battalion
Version 1 of the cover for Battalion
Drafts: Kurt Vonnegut