(from a teachitTALKS email today on a book Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching)

Pleased to have my prose poem at International Times today. Thanks to IT, Rupert Loydell, and whoever produced the wonderful image! Read it here.

Emptiness
is a guide to
inclusion,

a guide
to the
Unalone.

There is no
transcendent
cool,

no spiritual
excluded
loneliness

like the
Romantic
glorification

of ennui.
The emptiness
is not

Alone.
We wear a
peer-mask.

In the
weary world
we are

included, an
anhedonia
of the self

is not
for us Alone.
The irony

is this
spiritual
inclusion.

(cut-up: Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace)

Posted on Facebook, I’m most pleased to be included in this. And the ‘British’ works for me. With thanks to Steve Spence.

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Released today, and the following information is taken from the Beir Bua Press site here

Links below work only on the site!

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My thanks to Michelle Moloney King for the cover design, and to Rose Knapp and Marian Christie for such positive comments on its contents.

As an eclectic writer – passionate about and committed to varying styles – I am delighted to be a part of the dynamism that is Beir Bua Press and its publishing editor Michelle Moloney King who in June will be publishing my book &there4. This is a collection of found/erasure/cut-up and other poems based mainly on philosophical texts.

Here are further details about the book and a launch event on 30th June (click on images to enlarge):

The eventbrite link is here

The unbearable
force of a wrong

incoherent and
rigid,

you futile in a
universe holding this.

Kicking, slaps, battling –
each emptier against

the injustice;
the power of it.

You well up
but do not quite dare

cry, holding on
from behind the blood.

Once tall
– six three –

the red burst makes
you inches shorter.

(cut-up: Rabbit, Run – John Updike)