Autumn Reading

October is the month of 大稻埕國際藝術節 Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts and 草御殿 Ivy Palace is a local space working to revive the artistic vitality and diversity in collaboration with this Dadaocheng centred festival. Ivy Palace has invited Taipei Poetry Collective to share our poetry there on Saturday night. That's this Saturday 13th. It's gonna be a short sharp reading from 8-9. We want to invite you to come have a drink, listen to some new poetry, and start your night right. It's FREE. Come say haaai, hello and give us warm squeezes. 
If you didn't pick up a copy of our last zine, we have a few of those beauties left—so grab one before they all get snatched up!
We can't wait to see you x

For more information visit our event page on FB here.

On the radio, again!

I was invited back to Radio Taiwan International and went on The Book of Odes to read two poems about place and time. Click here to listen.

Photo by Michael Garber

Contemporary Monologue

Modern Romance.

Makings of a Millennial.

Poetry.

Books To Write, otherwise known as Things to Discuss With My Therapist.

The Anxiety of Influence.

The Anxiety of Indecision.

The Anxiety of Infection.

The Anxiety of Integrity.

Card On Spokes Atreyu (unreleased outtake)

Ah, I forgot about this one. I made this cover art for an outtake from Shane Cooper's live electronic music project Card on Spokes 2 years ago. Back when I had a working tumblr and two fallopian tubes. 

Have a listen here. 

ACID EFKT x Taipei Poetry Collective

On June 2 & 3 the Taipei Poetry Collective hosted poetry writing workshops at Grassroots Taipei. 

We offered workshops on Blackout/Erasure Poetry, Haikus, the Cinquain and the Ode.

Follow TPC on Facebook for further information regarding public workshops, our bi-weekly poetry workshops, and readings. 

Milk Fever Poems

I made the cover for Milk Fever, a gorgeous book of poetry by Megan Ross. Published by Nick Mulgrew over at Uhlanga Press, it's available on Amazon, and good bookstores near you. And now I have it, hard copy, in my hands all the way in Taiwan! Sooo exciting!

I wrote a thing on Taipei

I have a new article up on The News Lens International about Taipei's creative resistance. 

https://international.thenewslens.com/article/97923

On the radio

In this 10 minute episode I chat to Charlie Storrar on Radio Taiwan International and read three poems about revisiting home and communication breakdown.  Give me and my nerves a listen.

x as y

Lust as currency,

Love as currency,

Attention as currency, 

Alternate. 

x as y

Sleeping as problem solving. 

Tweeting as problem solving. 

Eating as problem solving. 

Fucking as problem solving. 

x # y

Walking subverts structure.

Hyperlinks subvert structure. 

Dancing subverts structure. 

#taipeivignette

The Taipei sky is the color of dry cement.

Praise

Megan Ross on Twitter: "And thank to the most dope, @loveleorajoy for this incredible cover art.… "

Practise

Write like how you take photographs. 

Megan Ross and Milk Fever Poems

I am beyond excited that Megan Ross asked me to design the front cover of her debut collection of poetry which explores unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. It's a gorgeous collection: tender, raw, and honest. I loved reading and re-reading it. Go to Uhlanga Press to find out more and get her book here. 

#taipeivignette

Just cycled past a young woman with a big bloody gash on her knee and long thick hair hiding chest-heaving sobs. #summerinthecity 

#taipeivignette

A fat man in baby blue swoops past on an electric bicycle in Hello Kitty pink.

Taipei Poetry Collective is in the news

Sandee Woodside wrote on the only Poetry Collective in Taipei. That's us! 

Go to The NewsLens to read about Taipei Poetry Collective and the importance of poetry. 

Photo by Temporary Truth. 

#taipeivignette

Air so thick with imminent rain you could cut it, like slicing those slabs of brown sugar steamed sponge cake, wrapped in wax paper, sold from small blue vans parked on the side of the road.