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Book announcement: Transition Vamps
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2 min read
I’m happy to announce that Cordite Publishing Inc., through its poetry imprint Cordite Books, will publish my third full-length collection, Transition Vamps, in 2026.
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‘May.be’ 4
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Maar in zijn rand verbrak de zee in reven—Herman Gorter, ‘Mei’ but the sea crumbled at its edges like reef cakesendless as heartbeat bombs repeating overheadyellow bees (or were they drones? blue clouds?thousands of them, mouthing stuff about warsthe sweaty children’s armpits in Ukraine (sameas here: lipsticked girls lined up at a kermis, theirnecklaces made…
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‘Nagasaki crows’ redux
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On 9 August 1945, US forces detonated a second atomic bomb over Japan, destroying the city of Nagasaki, killing around eighty-thousand people and injuring many more. The first bomb, which had levelled Hiroshima three days earlier, was not sufficient to prompt Japan to capitulate. Six days after the destruction of Nagasaki, however, and following Russia’s…
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‘May.be’ 3
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Blauw dreef de zee . . .—Herman Gorter, ‘Mei’ we were falling into blue while the sunshine made waterwe were floating like hairdressers with our golden combsthrough cotton-wool waves whose old sound washed ussoothing us with vaseline and a smell like heavy nappiesbut it was too cold to swim in Ameland’s browning surfso we walked…
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‘May.be’ 2
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Zóó . . .–Herman Gorter, ‘Mei’ this sound, just like the song we used to sing togetherI will read it for you when we get back from forever—if you polished my language or buttered up my accentI would teach your left eye to wink when you laugh . . .(hihi lol but whose hand was…
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Film review: Convoy (1978)
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The trucking film genre is apparently vast, although I suspect a great deal of the canon (I use this term verrrry loosely) suffers from the ‘straight-to-late-night-television’ effect and remains largely unwatched today. Last night I was doing some trucking research for my novel-in-progress when I came across an online reference to the 1975 song “Convoy”…
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Les Fauves: “Sunbury 97”
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“Lazy Highways, that was our Australiana record, I suppose.”–Andrew Cox, The Fauves My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in February 2025, in the depths of Dutch winter. I may have been experiencing some kind of down-vibe during the recording process. So, I thought I’d harness yet again the…