Endings make me restless. So do storms. Which is how I found myself standing at the top of a hill […]
Archive: ish (from What the Water Gave Us)
Listen to “ish” on Soundcloud. This piece was written in 2022 and published in summer 2023 in What the Water […]
Film Review: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
This review was published in the UK music magazine Plan B on the film’s release. This is my edited draft […]
Archive: Reaching Out from a Messy Place, Lumin Journal #4 (Winter 2021/22)
When lockdown was announced in 2020, I was two weeks from a (postponed) manuscript deadline, so of course my immediate […]
Essays & Poems 2021
Essays, interviews and poems available online, published in 2021. For offline publications, follow the links on Anthologies & Magazines. ‘Missed Hands‘, […]
Writing: “Aliens Like Me”, DVD essay on Friendship’s Death
‘Aliens Like Me’ When I am killed You will find in my pockets Travel tickets To peace To the fields […]
Writing: Born into Armistice: Margaret Tait’s Pacific Cinema
This talk was originally given on Armistice Day 2018, the 100th anniversary of Margaret Tait’s birth, to introduce a screening […]
Writing: Ways of Seeing, On Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
This essay first appeared in Sight & Sound, 23.9 (September 2013). * Over the end credits of Jem Cohen’s latest […]
Disturbing Words: waste
Originally published on tinyletter 16 June 2017. ‘More than a handful is a waste.’ True story: this is an actual […]