Introducing…Pozzywallah

This coming November, my very first sibling will enter the world. When I was a child, I adored fantasy stories … More

Diary: May ’24

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. … More

To Rishi Sunak Garish ghouls in their wooden cabinet send our coins to burn to a cinder. Woken by the … More

Having always been married to the mystical, documenting my dreams is like breathing: it comes naturally. If you trawled through … More

Author’s Note: The Poetry Postmortem is where I take a poem I or someone else wrote and I discuss it … More

Patient: The Underground by Seamus Heaney Over on my Substack, I have this series called Poetry Postmortem. The purpose of … More

The Lover by Marguerite Duras — I’ve said it once, and I will say it again. The French know how … More

January 2022 — Ah, yes, I will take on this personal experiment. I, Courtenay, will record the books I read … More

It is almost 6 pm, and I am listening to Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ on audiobook. The evenings … More

Here are books that I recommend that have either come out this year or that I read this year. I … More