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

A couple of nights ago, I finally read the report that was written by the mental health nurse who assessed … More

Talking doesn’t feel like healing. For me, talking feels like opening old wounds waking dormant demons picking at infected scabs … More

I read the report. It was even worse than I’d imagined. Full of untruths. Peppered with irrelevant information, things that … 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