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This about the (Irish) emigrant experience of my dear Chile-le-le https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/living-in-chile-a-country-deeply-ill-at-ease-in-its-inequality-1.3617028

Paul McCartney was there too, appazza. Just saying. My pieces for the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve were included. They are mostly sad things about plants. https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/6232-the-land-we-live-in-the-land-we-left-behind

In Case of Death

This article is published in Harper’s Bazaar Korea this September. If you read Korean, you’ll understand. Illustration by http://www.ignacio-ortega.com/   Harper’sBazaar

As part of a collaboration with the artist Rob Crosse at Kingsgate Workshops I wrote this series of (prose?) poems. The work is called “In Case of Death”, and it is, among other things, an instruction manual on how to reverse … Continue reading →

Here is a poem I was asked to write for the birth of my nephew. It wouldn’t have got written if I hadn’t been asked, which makes it feel something of a surrogate (ironically). But that is not the point. … Continue reading →

Killing It  I killed it, in his words, and really I had left him awe-struck. I killed it: mastery to the point of murder. I left to buy fruit And returned to find he hadn’t budged, to find his hand … Continue reading →

Cirque Time and time again she has Said that she will only ever Swim in corries, as though There were a hierarchy of waters, As though the cirque were high art And all the world’s pools and rivers only drivel. … Continue reading →