Acid Testimonies is a collection of thirty-five poems organised into six interconnected movements exploring complacency, social degradation, sexuality, institutional power, historical recurrence and metaphysical reflection.Moving from the intimate textures of everyday life towards broader questions of civilisation and identity, the collection examines recurring patterns of authority, alienation, aspiration and belief. The poems inhabit spaces between observation and testim...

Universal Buck-Passing: Socialized medicine never works. It can seem to work for about fifty to seventy years as true costs are hidden and construed as increases in the "cost-of-living" or as nebulous, ill-defined tax increases, rather than increased, dedicated health care costs. The concept of "price at the point of service" is important, since it is easy to assume that it represents the total cost of care. Taxes to fund the system are actually hidden, compelled pre-payments. They allow p...

The Cabinet of the Wry Witness is a poetic cabinet of curiosities.Organised into seven symbolic drawers, the collection journeys through landscapes of beauty, systems of belief, medicine, cultural spectacle, melancholy, artistic inheritance and renewal.Mountains become human levellers. Institutions become exhibits. Scientists, philosophers, conspiracists, entertainers, lovers and artists are examined with equal measures of fascination, humour, scepticism and sympathy. Throu...

Fragments from the Leper Colony is a novel of consciousness told through 131 interlocking fragments.Its unnamed narrator inhabits the Colony: a world of unemployment, meaningless labour, rented rooms, political meetings, television schedules, computer courses, cultural debris and relationships that repeatedly fail to provide connection. The Colony is not merely a location. It is a condition entered when time loses its shape, meaningful work disappears and the future contra...

Post-Flesh Exhibits is a poetic journey through identity, civilisation, spectacle and the search for meaning in an increasingly mediated world.Across eight interconnected movements, the collection traces the transformation of the individual from manufactured identity to urban alienation, social exhaustion, spectacle, ritual and spiritual inquiry before arriving, unexpectedly, at cultivation, discipline and renewal. Cities become museums of forgotten lives. Progress mutates...

Cosmetic Guillotine is a poetic anatomy of contemporary civilisation and its hidden interiors.Across five interconnected movements, Veneer, Contagion, Apparatus, Fracture and Residue, the collection traverses glamour, ideology, empire, desire, cultural illness, psychological dislocation and the search for meaning beyond systems that appear increasingly exhausted.These poems move be...

Tribunal of Unseeing is a poetry collection about consciousness under pressure: the struggle to remain human within cultures that classify, condition, commodify and reduce the individual.Across six movements, the collection constructs a tribunal in which the structures of contemporary life are brought into evidence. The body becomes specimen, commodity and social sign. Desire is manufactured. Identity is organised through inherited categories. Politics becomes spectacle. W...

What happens when the ability to see through illusion becomes an inability to believe in anything at all?Cocoon Corpus is a collection of poems concerned with perception, falsity, cultural construction and the dangerous seductions of negation. Moving through fractured images of politics, sexuality, authority, technology, consumer life, intimacy, art and social belonging, the poems repeatedly test the structures through which human beings create meaning.Nothing is a...

Inaudible Crushed Shells of Sense (Casuistry) is a visionary sequence of poems exploring beauty, memory, childhood, civilisation, desire, myth and consciousness through a rich symbolic landscape of vessels, ruins, thresholds and forgotten architectures of meaning.Across eight interconnected sections, the collection journeys from the first intimations of beauty and selfhood through institutions, childhood, inheritance, love, transmission and cultural exhaustion before arriv...

"Now you must do something much scarier. You must dare to be yourself. ***Live as you!***"Detention is a character-driven ensemble novel (90.5K words including 1 map and 7 illustrations) about fighting for freedom against tyrannical laws. Hugo Rank, an empathic detective who longs for epic tales, interrogates eight young outlaws, arrested for rioting:Sanchx, a gender-fluid con artist,Bastian, an irreverent flame-da...

Performing New Orleans examines the value of arts and culture in managing complex urban challenges, offering new perspectives on how artistic and everyday performances can be pivotal modes of practicing resilience. Through an exploration of understudied forms of performance in New Orleans, Stuart Andrews and Patrick Duggan highlight the centrality of the city’s arts ecosystems as a vital aspect of its ability to “perform” resiliency.Performing New Orleans resists ...

A Raping Coronation is a visionary prose-poem written between April and August 1999.Moving through political disillusionment, spiritual crisis, cultural collapse and psychic transformation, the work refuses easy certainties and conventional resolutions.Part philosophical inquiry, part fever dream and part satirical apocalypse, it charts the progress of a consciousness unwilling to settle for partial truths.Written at the close of the twentieth century and p...