Matt Quinn
@mr_matt_quinn
Some poetry. Frequent rests. Occasional surfacing newt.
A little story about how PIP reassessments are a significant problem and saying that the system won’t change for existing claimants is cold comfort. I was 8 years old the first time my dad was sectioned. He was medically retired by 40. He was able to claim DLA. 1/
Who says metaphysical poetry belongs in the 17th century? Here's Rodger Kamenetz with "The Metaphysics of Goofy" from the "Dreaming Awake" prose poetry anthology.
I loved @emilyrinkema's "Five Stages of Doug" in the latest issue of @gonelawn. gonelawn.net/journal/issue6…
When I wrote this back in 2016, I was longing for a Labour government, never imagining that when that finally happened they'd cut disability benefits just as harshly and with remarkably similar rhetoric. (Poem made from lines from IDS speeches with words changed.) #PIPcuts
Really enjoying watching this year's cubs hanging out on the old garages opposite my window. Trying to persuade myself I can afford a proper camera and telephoto lens ... #foxcubs #foxes
Brian Barker's "Strong Man", one of my favourites from his collection "Vanishing Acts".
The view from my window is graced daily by foxes who seem to live behind these old garages across the street. Increasingly they creep into my poems. (Not the best quality photo. Just discovered there are telephoto lenses you can attach to a phone & very tempted to get one) #foxes
Another adrenalin-fuelled white-knuckle submission to @havehadhavehad complete. Now to stare vacantly out of the window and wait for the post-adrenalin slump to pass.
Now that I have three skulls I can finally learn to juggle... Huge thanks to @havehadhavehad for publishing this.
“The octopus, having become a man, starts to wonder if their situation might be viewed as metaphor... but the man, having become an octopus, has lost all capacity for figurative thought.” today’s from Matt Quinn and it’s gloriously absurd and bleak havehashad.com/preview/hadpos…
Isn't this always the way with the worlds we build? Love this.
new today from @emli_writes starts playful and ends annihilated “…the tiny magnetic field disappeared and the tiny radiation from the tiny sun cooked all the tiny people.” havehashad.com/hadposts/tiny-…
new today from @emli_writes starts playful and ends annihilated “…the tiny magnetic field disappeared and the tiny radiation from the tiny sun cooked all the tiny people.” havehashad.com/hadposts/tiny-…
Huge thanks to @havehadhavehad for publishing this and doubling my skull count. havehashad.com/hadposts/rust
love everything about today's @JeffreyHermann short, but man I'm especially a sucker for when a story corrects itself "At the gym maybe the girlfriends will do abdominal crunches or maybe not. No, they will not do abdominal crunches." havehashad.com/hadposts/one-d…
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BATHTUB IN THE WORLD in the new @adroitjournal, thank you peter theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-th…
Maybe you are on a break this weekend - why don't you have a crack at submitting? We are open for poetry and short fiction until 14 May inclusive Aw - go on! theinterpretershouse.org/submissions
The government's own estimates of the impact of their planned cuts targeting Personal Independence Payments, a payment intended to meet the extra costs of being disabled: 50,000 more children in absolute poverty and 250,000 more adults in absolute poverty by 2030.
Delayed gratification was never my strong point, but I'm now looking (further) forward to this chapbook from @VikShirley. Ordered it weeks ago and was wondering why it still hadn't arrived. Turns out that's because it's not actually out for another 9 days ...
