I’m the author of Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria:
Also of Half Cocks, a book of 50 poems, each 50 words long:
Here’s one about Gawain and the Green Knight:
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FOR CLOSURE SEEK the chapel of mischance, moss-cushioned grotto of seasonal restitution, where the sharpest blades hang out. Self-harm approximates that ritual whereby one wound requites another; but without mercy, which sometimes is worth sticking your neck out for, and by the devil’s luck emerging upright, nearly-scathed. |
I also have a chapter in Manning’s forthcoming Neo4j In Action, a chapter in The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, and a couple of pages in True Detection (about the first series of the TV show True Detection).