A.K. Blakemore

A.K. Blakemore’s new collection, Fondue, will be published in July.

Two Poems

A.K. Blakemore, 7 June 2018

my sex

enter breakfast truck, the bluebottles performing obsequies to marbled bacon

enter girl with manacles. enter so damn adorable. he likes small fuckdoll.

girl who looks plaintively at porcelain salt and pepper shakers shaped like kittens sleeping, intertwined. enter desolation beside a pinstripe spider-plant enter knowing how to dress your pear-shape history history, and after you...

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The Manningtree Witches and The Glutton are both driven by an appetite for the ‘juiciest’ words – for ‘how they feel when you say them, or look at them’. But if a writer seems more invested in...

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