Found in Phone Notes

09:23 The last time I met Emily Dickinson in my dreams we had coffee and ice cream, and I taught…

Icarus

It was a sad thing to discover that the sensation of your lit cigarette burying its hot head in the pale crook of…

One Time at Camden Lock

1 / I watch the man in the crumpled white shirt take a swig from his can of Stella and…

Another Time at Camden Lock

It’s a strange feeling, this, to be left alone in the middle of a crowd, to be abandoned by people…

Kneading

Originally published by Lunate (August 2021).

‘AN INTERVIEW WITH POET SUPERSTAR HLR BY STEPHEN J. GOLDS’

https://punknoirmagazine.com/2021/07/24/an-interview-with-poet-superstar-hlr-by-stephen-j-golds-2/ This time last year, I was trying to talk the editor of an Indie Crime Press into letting me…

Leia John reviews History of Present Complaint by HLR

I’m so pleased to have made an awesome new poet friend recently, Leia John of ‘Poems That Suck’ / @suckasspoetry…

Winner of The Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2021 – Anatomy of a Disordered Personality: Skin by HLR

I’m delighted to announce that I am the winner of The Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2021! The competition is…

Critical response to History of Present Complaint by HLR

I’ve been informed that humans, especially when reading online, have a short attention span (!) so, with this in mind,…

Things The Narrator Does in ‘History of Present Complaint’

– hits a policeman in the face – forgets what humans are – believes she’s a microwave meal – wins…