the second moon letters
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time wondering if there’s anything about the years I spent producing academic writing about English poetry that can be salvaged from the wreck of the university. I’m somewhat comforted by the fact that I was never actually that good at the kind of crit…
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When I was about twelve, I think, I broke a banker’s lamp. My granny had given it to me after my grandpa died. He wasn’t a banker, but he owned one of …
Oct 31, 2020CommentShare
we destroy the whole world the great spreadsheet after the event after the dissolution of spirit we level disenchantment starting again from the ground…
Oct 12, 2020CommentShare
There's a difference between a house and a home. Conventionally, we might think that a house is a mere building but a home is something more – by addin…
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I didn’t write any letters in June because events seemed to have overtaken the need for poetry-criticism for a while. During both a pandemic and an upr…
Jul 10, 2020CommentShare
‘Perversion’ has two distinct but related meanings, which describe the contrarian (‘perverse’) and the deviant (‘perverted’), both stemming from per-ve…
May 26, 2020CommentShare
When I taught intro-to-poetry classes, I ended each term with ‘Write Fucked Up Poems’, by Hoa Nguyen, not only because I did want the students to write…
May 20, 2020CommentShare
In this first letter, I write about Nuar Alsadir’s poem ‘Quantum Displacement’, published by Granta Magazine and available to read here: https://granta…
May 11, 2020CommentShare
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