Not literally (my books would never forgive me), but creatively.
I was made redundant earlier this year. It was a shock – no getting around that – but, unexpectedly, it’s had its upside.
For the first time in ages, I’ve had space to write again. Not just dabble, but really sit with the words… let them stretch out, get feral, maybe even find their way back into songs. (There may be a couple of revenge songs quietly simmering – written to exorcise the whole redundancy thing. Maybe they’ll show themselves in time 😉)
I’ve just opened up a new site over on Substack! Where I can stretch out a bit more – write longer, stranger, truer things. It’s very early embryonic days, but I’d love you to join me on the journey:
👉 https://docbaroque.substack.com
I’ll be gradually moving a lot of the better pieces from here over there, alongside plenty of new material -some thoughtful, some chaotic, hopefully all worth your time.
And that’s not all: I’ve also launched a Bandcamp page, where the poems are beginning to find their way back into their original shape – as songs, sounds, invocations. So if you’ve ever been curious as to how they were intended to be, the first few have appeared below as well as some new stuff, and I’d love you to enjoy them how they were always meant to be heard:
👉 https://docbaroqueandtheapparatusinfernal.bandcamp.com
Both platforms are very much fledglings at this stage—blank pages and untuned strings—but if you’d like to watch them grow (or help shape them), pull up a chair, grab a coffee, and let’s build something strange and beautiful together.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
An Audience of One 