Sam Kemp is a poet and lecturer at Northeastern University London. He teaches creative writing to students from a range of disciplines and leads various modules on poetic craft and technique. He's interested in psychogeography, nostalgia and motorcycle cafes, and is currently working on a project relating to the place and language of industrial disputes. You can find his work in the Mechanics Institute Review, ANMLY, and Streetcake, and his chapbook, Maps to Arkham, is available with Nat1 Press. Find more of his work at www.samkempoetry.com.
For the fourteen ‘luddites’ who were executed in 1813 thin rain rounds almost everything over and again over and again and sounds like kindness moving over the moors and the wooly walls of stone fields until it reaches mist and begins to be everywhere all at once, like sickness searching the blind edgelands for any profit deep enough to stick… Read more →