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Disturbing Words: ends
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Disturbing Words: ends

by: So MayerPosted on: December 31, 2023May 24, 2024

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)
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Archive: ish (from What the Water Gave Us)

by: So MayerPosted on: October 16, 2023December 6, 2023

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)
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Film Review: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

by: So MayerPosted on: April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

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)
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Archive: Reaching Out from a Messy Place, Lumin Journal #4 (Winter 2021/22)

by: So MayerPosted on: May 27, 2024

When lockdown was announced in 2020, I was two weeks from a (postponed) manuscript deadline, so of course my immediate […]

Essays & Poems 2021
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Essays & Poems 2021

by: So MayerPosted on: January 1, 2022November 13, 2022

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
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Writing: “Aliens Like Me”, DVD essay on Friendship’s Death

by: So MayerPosted on: July 22, 2023July 22, 2023

‘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
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Writing: Born into Armistice: Margaret Tait’s Pacific Cinema

by: So MayerPosted on: November 11, 2019November 13, 2022

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
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Writing: Ways of Seeing, On Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours

by: So MayerPosted on: September 13, 2013November 13, 2022

This essay first appeared in Sight & Sound, 23.9 (September 2013). * Over the end credits of Jem Cohen’s latest […]

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Disturbing Words: waste

by: So MayerPosted on: June 16, 2017June 21, 2024

Originally published on tinyletter 16 June 2017. ‘More than a handful is a waste.’ True story: this is an actual […]

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