Ictus

ictus [ik-tuhs] 1. In prosody the stress, beat or rythmical accent of a poem 2. In medicine a seizure, a stroke or the beat of the pulse

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Quandary: A Poem from 'Incompletion'

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QUANDARY: A QUADRINA Ever feel yourself porous, riddled all over with absences that render you see- through, open to the raw? No solid edges...
Friday, 3 November 2023

'First There is a Mountain': Bobbie Gentry and Donovan at the BBC

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Letter for Gaza

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Yesterday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the  Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) —an ad hoc coalition committed t...
Friday, 4 August 2023

Dancing Ghosts by Chris and Cosey

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Sunday, 18 June 2023

Echoland: Derek Attridge on Finnegans Wake

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   While writing a review of the fascinating collection brought out recently by Tears in the Fence's new publishing imprint,  Knitting D...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Neurodivergence and The Piano

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 This startling video of a young woman with severe autism and a visual impairment was a reminder to me that we should never make assumptions...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

'One’s form is one’s tool': New Yorker Interview with Jorie Graham

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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jorie-graham-takes-the-long-view?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm...
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Sunday, 20 November 2022

George Saunders Interview and Story Club

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  This is an intriguing interview George Saunders did with Stephen Colbert on The Late Late Show recently. Even though I haven't read h...
Saturday, 8 October 2022

There'd Better Be a Mirrorball

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  "I'd throw the rose tint back on the exploded view"
Thursday, 1 September 2022

Dean Young RIP

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Dean Young passed away last week at only 67, a poet I greatly admired. A moving tribute from his editor at Copper Canyon Press here .
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First book of poems 'Human Form' published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. New book 'Incompletion' published April 2025 by Vole Books. Poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review and World Literature Today. Philosophy guide 'Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?' published in 2019. I'm a SEND teacher and Creative Writing tutor based in Hertfordshire, as well as being a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching British modernist poetry.
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