John McCullough 🏳️🌈
@JohnMcCullough_
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Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Just joined Bluesky: https://t.co/gADmtP14NR
Hove, UK
Joined July 2010
CW: domestic violence. Poem from my recent collection Panic Response about my chemistry teacher, Avril Brown, who was very kind to me and who deserves to keep shining. (Been talking about her owing to the misogynistic killings in Bushey, which is where she taught me.)
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W. S. Merwin, 1999. From Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2005).
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RT @lightumbreIla: Things get pretty radical in the dark: ... the sunset instantaneous on the fenders, memory and peace . . . the grip of c…
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RT @qikipedia: Human bodies emit a tiny amount of light. We glow most strongly in the afternoon.
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Gorgeous 1939 painting of Elizabeth Bishop's house. It's by Loren MacIver, the first woman represented in MOMA's permanent collection, and uses watercolours and ink on paper. (Everything is just rainbow, rainbow, rainbow. Looks like she let the fish go too - always wise.)
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Rebecca Lindenberg, interviewed by McSweeney's (April 23, 2013).
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W. S. Merwin. One of my favourite poems of his to not feature in Migration: New and Selected Poems, this is from The Carrier of Ladders (Atheneum, 1970).
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Douglas Crase. From: Poetry magazine (February 1978).
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Gwen Harwood. Her Collected Poems was published by Oxford University Press in 1991. (Text here from Emergency Kit - Faber, 1996.)
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RT @lesleyksharpe: Thrilled to have come third in @CafeWriters wonderful competition, judged by @JohnMcCullough_ 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Congratulations to E…
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RT @ImogenGC: Very proud to hold a finished copy of HER NAME IS ALICE, and raise a glass with @alicemydaughter. Thank you to all those w…
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RT @Othuke__Umukoro: "America breaks my heart some days, and some days it breaks itself in two."
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Marianne Moore. This is how ‘No Swan So Fine’ appeared in the October 1932 issue of Poetry magazine. My other favourites include ‘Critics and Connoisseurs’, ‘What Are Years?’, ‘Picking and Choosing’, ‘The Pangolin’ and ‘An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish’. 🙂
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Keith Leonard. From: Waxwing magazine, Issue 23 (2021).
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