Amy Hodder Tempest || Poems

Amy Hodder Tempest is a writer and poet based in south east London. She did a BA in English at the University of Sussex, before going on to complete an MPhil, also in English, at Cambridge. Her own writing often falls somewhere in between verse and prose, and has been published in various publications. She is currently working in a bookshop. 

The poems collated here were all written over the last twelve months. It is difficult to say what they are 'about' in the thematic sense of the word. Certainly they are all concerned with a kind of experimental poetics and the idea of language as unstable and inchoate. Collectively, they meditate on many things: childhood shame, longing, desire, the breakdown of a friendship, jealousy, journeys by boat and train, the colour blue, the painting of a wall, the memory of a dream, sinkholes, coffee, caffeine, rhizomes, adolescence, beauty, sadness, fallibility, work, failure, London, the city, skies, rain, Depop, InPost lockers, shopping centres, poetry, emptiness, Prozac, etc. etc.