more thoughts on book sales After my post about poetry sales figures and people’s responses, I’ve been thinking a lot about comparisons with what I know now of nonfiction sales, particularly of nature writing, memoir and biography. Since Recovering Dorothy first came out with Saraband in the UK in 2021, I’ve had experiences publishing nonfictionContinue reading “Putting It Owl Out There”
Monthly Archives: August 2026
On Selling Poetry
These are my three poetry collections, all published by Seren: Basic Nest Architecture (2017) Much With Body (2021) Emergency Dream (2026) Yesterday I got my sales figures for the first time since 2017 (there’s been an issue that’s being worked on!) and I thought it would be useful and interesting to share those numbers, afterContinue reading “On Selling Poetry”
“Promoting Chronicity”:
On Illness Narratives, Ongoingness, and Unrecovery University of Southern Mississippi Center for Ethics and Health Humanities March 24th 2025 Foreword Below follows the text of a lecture I wrote and gave online last March. I had hoped to get a chance to write more in the months that followed about the dangers of the suddenContinue reading ““Promoting Chronicity”:”
Shadow Dispatches 