They were both students of mine, as were a
number of the invited poets for this special celebratory edition: Natasha
Borton (who has featured on Pages a
couple of times here and here), Rick Lee, Ursula Hurley, and Jacqui Dunne, among many
others!
They have published ‘Empty Diary 2016: Send in the Worms’.
Empty Diaries is
a long sequence that ran through Twentieth
Century Blues and into the current century's poems: 1901- and ongoing (again after a break of a decade)!
The first eight of Wiped Weblogs: ED
2001-14 appeared in The Literateur. Find them here
or here. The final
six appeared in a wonderful edition of Blackbox Manifold. See
here.
Empty Diary 2016 has a touch of doing the boss a
favour about it! It’s a 100 word sonnet (see here for more on that form) but I cheat since the compound word
‘polysexual-Trumptrampled-sissyslut-feminization’, supposedly from the lexis of
BDSM, is used at one point, and counts as one. But to read the rest of this exploration of
contemporary sexuality, you will have to buy a copy of Erbacce 50.
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Another sequence of 100 word sonnets, 'Breakout' is in preparation. There is one in Robert Hampson's Purge.
I’m currently thinking about writing Empty Diary 2017.Thinking with lines like:
It’s
strange to feel him writing through me once more
after
some years of, if not autonomy, random indication,
Google-sculpting
skin-flicks and outtakes of Chicklit.
