Address tae a cheesy chip

An address to some cheesy chips a girl is eating in a kebab shop who probably wants me to leave her alone.

A Twin Fantasy of an Exeter cell and a Leeds drunken stroll:

A tirade, written by a student, a prisoner, in their halls reflecting on life in isolation both in halls, and at home - the urban environment is essentially being trapped in a constant feeling of day release, so I am imprisoned in both realities, both fantasies.

In principio erat Verbum:

A first-'person' narrative poem, told from the perspective of God on the opening phrase of the New Testament; 'In the beginning there was the word'. Heavily influenced by T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land', as it is a pastiche written by the character Chris, an embodiment of the aforementioned poem

Four Seasons

a poem about a cigarette, spoken in the time taken to smoke one.

Having a Shot with You

A pastiche of the wonderfully beautiful poem, 'Having a Coke with You' by Frank O'Hara. I am attempting to explore the Unheimlich feeling of Hara's philosophy of poetry being about a conversation between two people. Consequently, this poem disrupts the conversation into that of a monologue of a suicidal speaker. Displaying that of ego-death or the dissolution of self. However, not in the Freudian/Jungian sense, instead a late-capitalist/postmodern. Thus, attempting to ascribe a poetic connection between Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism concept and the current mental health crisis.

the road from Emmaus to Spring’s gate:

A poem written whilst in the Marsden moors near the location known as Easter Gate.

silence

A narrative poem which details the story if our star-crossed lovers survived and were not quite that star-crossed.