New here? Start with Do You Love Riff Raff? Ancoats To New Islington, Manchester, one of the most-read poems here, or choose a theme below.
Street & State
I leave the dark interior,
another Helles in my hand.
Technology & AI
He laughed & typed, don’t tell me lies —
You’re just a very bad sentient in disguise!
Geopolitics & Myth
They call it Libertas, a copper crown,
A gift of friendship from a foreign shore.
The archive has three more themes: Love, Loss & Relationship, Identity, Self & Fragmentation and Sacred Thought & Moral Reflection.
For variations in form, explore the raw vulnerability of the Skendong Laid Bare series, or look at things askew with the Sideways Poem collection.
To see everything in one place, open The Archive. To find out who writes this, read About Skendong, or learn the method behind the poems in Clunky Narratives.