Ok new york it is my duty to inform you I am doing a book launch for THE DINNER PARTY with @rdh_monster at @hivemindbookstore on the 21st (ie NEXT FRIDAY) we will both read love letters and discuss LOVE. Then we will be going to Carmelo's after. please come see me I *totally* want to see you
BY POPULAR DEMAND video of me falling over while trying to get my non-alcoholic beer during my gig at @biblioasis_bookshop in Windsor on Tuesday // COME SEE ME ON FRIDAY at @anotherstorybookshop in TORONTO with @nikostratis I will doubtless invent some new way of publicly humiliating myself
Last night in Windsor with Casey and Sybil at @biblioasis_bookshop was chaos as usual i cannot confirm or deny I fell over a speaker and crawled around saying ow, this FRIDAY I am at @anotherstorybookshop in TORONTO with @nikostratis come see us
NEW YORK good morning happy Monday I am launching a book at the excellent hive mind books NEXT WEEK with that redoubtable roué and rake @rdh_monster // we will be indulging in the evanescent pleasures of love and the senses come join usssssss...
At the end of the month I am throwing a party at MY HOUSE in New York City to celebrate the fact I committed another book
please do come, there will be wine
xoxoxo
This Saturday I am doing a themed reading about the trans early modern period w/ Aurora Mattia and I'm so excited cos if I blabber about Marvell & Rochester & Barnfield they will like (?) & expect that // this is literally my fave thing I have ever been invited to do please come if u can
For reasons of her own the brilliant and beautiful @biche_bash is drawing a full-page illustration of the poem "She Almost Courts A Shepherdess" from my forthcoming book 'The Dinner Party' and she just showed me the pencil and fucking hell...
If you want more of this sort of thing you can preorder the book (with even more art by rani on the cover) at /books/4817-the-dinner-party (link in bio too)
Here is the text if you want it
She almost courts a shepherdess
Our only music would be
the bleating sheep.
The stars would be our light.
If you would come with me
before we’d sleep
we would outdance the night
and when our hourglass,
the sky, turned red,
and the cock began to crow,
we’d use the uncut grass
to make a bed,
and lie in the meadow;
The morning would attend
our waking. Things
and times, both night and day
would make our love their end,
if I could sing
for you to come away.
I am on this excellent-looking panel tonight, I will be totally out of my depth, which is my preferred situation, makes you have to swim, anyway come by if you're in manhattan 6:30 pm 20 cooper sq 7th floor
