Custody Conversations

Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More

20 Years in The System

Response to NaPoWriMo Day 19: a rant. * A few years ago they madea change they say I am no … More

My debut prosetry collection History of Complaint will be released in print and digital on Friday 26th February 2021 (just … More

This post is a thread of tweets I posted earlier today, hence the terse style (280 character limits!) This time … More

Inspired by the 29th NaPoWriMo prompt to produce a poem that meditates, I used this poem to meditate on the … More

Your blood is highly uncooperative. If you were my daughter, I honestly wouldn’t know what to do with you. I’ve … More

Accidentally OD’d. Honestly, it was an accident. Remember going downstairs. Remember going out the door. Remember speaking to a man … More

Act 4 Scene II [Small windowless room in an NHS psychiatric ward in north London. Man with lots of letters … More

Apparently “devouring an 800 page novel, a bottle of 2011 Chablis and a shitload of codeine” is not the correct … More

when you’re in the waiting room at the sexual health clinic with a bunch of judgmental, stressed-out women and obstreporous … More