A True Account"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK and the US. Here are variously refracted the student movement, austerity, general election, referendum, the crisis of 2020 or 2019 or any year you care to name; the Massacre of the Innocents, the housing question, the October Revolution in November. Grundy

and not just in the seasonal sense

they’ll come later

Already you can smell the apples on the air

not keyed in

Literary Activism - activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature - emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia

myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head

And at what cost

about the slippages of memory

Then come the terrifying episodes of violence or near violence – incidents in which our narrator barely escapes rape at a party

He has an excellent eye and ear for the quirks of others

an unwillingness to speak of those experiences

I am beautiful