Matthew Haigh is one of the poets that I am delighted to have been introduced to via Fourteen Poems, I think that the strength of his references back into childhood of the 80s/90s provides a particular shared context of experience that makes his work really engaging for me.
From this collection one of the poems
I said I want to go as Catwoman for Halloween
They told me I was a boy. Pick the Penguin instead. If only we possessed
better vocabularies as children. I would have said “I will inhabit this
planet for a smudge a rind a wafer-skin of time and you’re telling me I
can’t be a BDSM vixen with an opal face and legs for days?”
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