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Kith and Kiln
“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ” ― Aleksandar Hemon. Am I still here? Do you see me notch the oxide sunset like an ancient etching? I’ve always hunched here, under rain or low-scud cloud– heard distant Hanley goose-honks; watched unhusked skinheads in a drunken slump stumble to their midnight dhansak shank and I used to dream of gathering the crazed hem of my brick-skirt (a drey of cindered mesh that cloisters my nesh in winter) to waltz at the moon in blousy damask and tease the bone-ash stars: to fang their quartzy flux. If I could speak I would talk…
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Old Beneventan Melodies in a Breviary
‘Old Beneventan Melodies in a Breviary’ was first published in Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies 20 (2013)
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Palimpsest
Sections of this poem were first published in Blackbox Manifold. 8 (2012) They are based on Guest’s translation and a Middle Welsh manuscript of Y Mabinogi using ‘phonetic transliteration, or what Zukofsky called ‘broken homonyms’.
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Sonnet en -mb
‘Sonnet en mb’ was first published in Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies 20 (2013) It is based on Mallarmé’s poem “Sonnet en -yx” and was made using a 1930s Remington Rand typewriter and a photocopier.
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Fifteenth Negative Space
‘Fifteenth Negative Space’ was first published in French Literary Review (Oct 2010, France).
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Three Poems
Sonnet 3 in the rip of the first elizabeth stones chaffinch inch-by-inch to a chink-wall wallow a vacant avalon timbre and vivid that sickles the kiss of tomb-heavy tongues that song that snog glottal and stomp volcano and mauve like lovers ripe inside the epos eater utter and pink-puck as tubas ear-rough as rattle as rope as pourpre that reprise the pureé of arpeggiac rip of nawns . …
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