So, belatedly I realised I hadn’t mentioned that my Episode on the The End of Tourism Podcast had gone live, so — tada! Entitled We Will Dance With Stillness, Chris and I discuss disability, nomadism, sense of place, the settler’s inability to stay still, ask just who exactly gets to say what a place is, and what it means, and quite a few other things. You can grab it at your favourite podcast source, or read the transcript.

In events news, I and IWTOTH will be doing an online session at the Becoming Monster Festival: A Convening at the End of the Human on 3rd November.

I also wrote a new poem:

Honing Before The Whetstone

In how many manners
Might one become
Two or three or more

Breaking stanza and structure
Because of art
Now devilishly dehiscent

Thrice born again and again
Against dying
Once

So to split
So to slice asunder
The meat and meter

Of charm and chant
Chime and call
Rhythm and rune

Cunning kennings
Cut well and deep –
Know you how to rightly read?
Writing springs forth
Sources scarlet rivers
Sharp with heart-iron’s howl
Sparks soar from black-smith’s strikings
Night-inked by Weyland’s severed sinews
Wyrd’s craft by turns of time ever-crippling