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HLR interviewed by Amy-Jean Muller for Outcast Press

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Lovely

You had three nosebleeds today, allof them highly satisfying, each equallylovely. The free-falling drop of claretthat lands on your newspaperat…

blood, body, mental health, mental illness, poem, poetry, psychology, writing

A Brief History of Tea

I used to resent making my father cups of tea. “Why can’t you just make it yourself?” He’d just stare…

CNF, creative non fiction, death, depression, England, essay, family, grief, memoir, memory, mental illness, non-fiction, psychosis, writing

Watch

1. Minutes these relentless finite minutes of mine he says we have to make ours count but I just count…

death, depression, existentialism, life, love, mental illness, mortality, philosophy, poem, poetry, relationships, suicide, time, writing

One Time at Camden Lock

1 / I watch the man in the crumpled white shirt take a swig from his can of Stella and…

alcohol, Camden Town, crime, life, London, love, memory, mental illness, murder, observation, poetry, prose, prosetry, relationships, short prose, short story

Cereal for Dinner

Sometimes, when consciousness was simply too painful for our sensitive souls, we would consume enough vodka, valium and zopiclone to…

drunk, friendship, life, love, mental health, mental illness, overdose, poem, poetry, prose poem, prosetry, relationships, writing

Peculiar Times (Pre-Pandemic)

We live in peculiar times: we start a new ashtray in a plastic yoghurt pot instead of emptying the big…

life, observations, poem, poetry, prose, prose poem, prosetry, writing

Review: First Cut #7 – Christopher

Book: Abandoned Accounts: Poems 2020-2021 Author: Roy Christopher Publisher: Close To The Bone (July 2021) Book #7 in the First Cut series Buy here: ebook / paperback * Roy…

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Another Time at Camden Lock

It’s a strange feeling, this, to be left alone in the middle of a crowd, to be abandoned by people…

Camden Town, depression, drunk, lies, London, love, poem, poetry, relationships, suicidal, writer, writing

Review: First Cut #6 – Bowie

Book: Dead Birds & Sinking Ships: (Happy Little Tales of Melancholy Madness) Author: John Bowie Publisher: Close To The Bone (June 2021) Book #6…

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