(NB Recording quality has not been the same, alas, since I switched broadband supplier. To be rectified.)

Untitled, a modern take on a sonnet

Toilet Stall Love Song

While I was working on this poem, it occurred to me to think too about the life of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 

Lady

A statement series on the seductive language of beauty columns, yet the uselessness of the advice they give. Created from actual weekend newspaper magazine columns, the text has been re-shaped using blackout technique to take the meaning entirely out of context. They read now more like spells than tips. 

Beauty notebook - five haikus

New Passport

from an occasional series of beauty nonsense poems

Sarah Taylor-Fergusson