A poem inspired by Lord Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey.
Sally Rooney as Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, whose books show the mundane and interior lives of radicals, sits alongside our foremost millennial novelist, reading her works is reading a version of the anxieties and experiences my compatriots and I have lived.
Rejection, Endless Rejection
Rejections are a fact of life. Rejection comes in friendship, work, creativity… and my god does it come hard and fast when you're trying.
Podcasts: The Ultimate Edutainment
What podcasts do I recommend, and what makes a good podcast to me?
Ersatz
A poem inspired by my Starbucks order. CW - eating disorders.
The song I’d like Alex Turner to write about me
I'd like to see you with a beer in your hand Swaying on the side of the stage, singin along to my band I’d like for your disdainful smile to catch my eye And to know what it means, to know you were havin a good time I'd like for your voice to call me... Continue Reading →
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I feel like a badly drawn picture of a girl Bent out of shape, losing features in the swirl Or the dot of the Impressionist brush Something about being such a beautiful mess is a headrush I feel like a child's illustration of a woman My features indistinguishable from others I could embody a Picasso;... Continue Reading →
Fantôme – Chapter 7, Part 1
In which we see horse thefts and threats.
Why Am I Rewriting Phantom of the Opera?
In re-writing Phantom of the Opera, I am trying to connect with a Sensibility that I found in the original, marrying modern writing practices with the emotion and tension of the original, and expanding Leroux’s seminal work into something a modern reader might enjoy more, but which also connects to the Romantic ideals of a past conception of literature.
Norwich
A poem about moving cities for work.
Late Romantic 