As promised, here's some of my favourite previously unpublished experimental writing. It's from a collection called The Unfinished Dream, which I submitted for my MA final dissertation. The collection is structured around the seasonal cycles and the ogham alphabet, so I'll be posting regular extracts throughout the year at the appropriate times. And if you're interested, … Continue reading Beith: Beginnings
As promised, here's some of my favourite previously unpublished experimental writing. It's from a collection called The Unfinished Dream, which I submitted for my MA final dissertation. The collection is structured around the seasonal cycles and the ogham alphabet, so I'll be posting regular extracts throughout the year at the appropriate times. And if you're interested, … Continue reading Beith
before there was word there was … Continue reading beforesilencewordbeforesilencesilence
when the whole world is a war zone & everyone's a target : i choose love i choose … Continue reading Contact Zone – A Poem for Peace
when the whole world is a war zone & everyone's a target : i choose love i choose … Continue reading Contact Zone
My name is wound : open violence open e trating silence write wound across my chest; scratches, marks in blood in flesh pull me screaming from the silence: word into this world of darkness [my death: certified] in blueblack ink suspension of time [iron: gall] the bitter stain … Continue reading Straif
Nemesis black [w]hole undone and un creating the abyss - dice thrown the game : personified in DNA encoded embodied naked flesh she counts the stars swallows them [w]hole Inside my mind is bleeding dying … Continue reading 11/11 Kali : Un Coup de Des
Undone tongue find glistens my shivering heart undone soul my find won't my tongue: words seamless glistens. come undone. tongue seamless won't soul; heart my cold glistens - seamless heart won't find! seamless tongue undone undone heart: words words words cannot - undone come. I find my shivering, seamless, undone tongue my cannot tongue undone … Continue reading Undone Tongue
This ekphrastic response to Andy Warhol's Atomic Bomb, 1965, was written as an exercise for my Writing from History course on the MA. It draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 1936 (Illuminations, Ed. Hannah Arendt, 1968), and is also influenced by this reading of Warhol's image … Continue reading Post-Apocalypse
Sally-Shakti Willow 