A Book Of Ghosts

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Notes:

1. Written between February 2025 and June 2025
2. And illustrated in June 2025
3. Originally on little cards, the words on one side, the pictures on the other.
4. Like miniature tarot cards or something
5. If tarot cards came with poems on them

6. Which I presume they don’t
7. Anyway, I apologise for the abject quality of a few of the illustrations
8. Especially the attempt at an aerial view of the field over the park
9. And also the magician in his hat
10. And maybe even all of the others
11. (I quite like the crow though)
12. And the slightly terrible whirlwind one is a tribute to this picture of a terrifying tornado in The Citadel Of Chaos.
13. Then again everything I do is a tribute to The Citadel Of Chaos
14. Also everything here was largely inspired by Leonora Carrington‘s Beasts series
15. Which I would spend hours looking at every couple of days
16. In an astonishingly good exhibition at Firstsite in Colchester
17. That ran through most of the bleakness of last winter
18. Also if you’ve found yourself all the way down here, you can download a pdf/ebook of this below

A Book Of Ghosts

19. If for some reason you like it enough to want it on your phones or whatever

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Words And Pictures Of Words

When I was young I used to have close to perfect spelling.

Whenever I spoke I would see the word in my head as I said it, in nice clean large print, as if it was one of those cards we used to use at primary school to learn key words, or the highlighted text in a Ladybird book which for some reason contained every word I ever needed to say, no matter how obscure and arcane. If there was a word I couldn’t spell, I tried my best not to have to say it, warping sentences simply to cover my discomfort, disquiet, outright shame.

I don’t do this any more. When I speak my mind shows me nothing.

And I can’t spell a fucking thing.

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Notes:

1. Written on November 12th, 2024

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Pictures

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Notes:

1. Written/made on 19th March, 2021
2. The pictures were taken by my parents
3. In the 80s
4. And contain me, my sister, and both my brothers
5. At various different ages
6. The music is Shock Value by Vowl Sounds
7. From their wonderful album Message Recieved
8. Which I really love
9. You should buy it
10. Or at least listen to it

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