Today I drove over the A65 to meet my friends Ange and Loren to experience something I named Art at the End of the World, though the official title of the installation we had gone to see is Harmonic Fields. This performance involved:
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On Citation and Disabled Memory
I’ve been thinking a lot this year about citation, and the power of including others’ words alongside your own. About what happens when you have the privilege of audience, even if just for a moment, and what responsibilities we have in that. I’m always thinking about this in some way, but I’ve been thinking aboutContinue reading “On Citation and Disabled Memory”
Putting It Owl Out There
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”
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 