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Dillon Jaxx
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Brotherton Prize 2024 - Live Canon Prize 2025
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Thanks Clare 💙
September 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Thanks very much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 💙
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III
An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner Dillon ...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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…and Adam Panichi.
Cupid, Grown In youth my leaf was smooth as a Ken doll’s. I was Cupid then, saw myself through a hand mirror. No one can other you quite like yourself. In the hot keen night, I would fold the thing between my legs into the neck of a swan asleep. The god of love emasc- ulated; I tried to give myself to men. Men at my father’s football club, potent with Deep Heat’s musk, swung fat cocks around the showers, soaping them the way a warrior whets his blade. Romans wore amulets of the phallic divine, dangled tintinnabula in doorways, from horses when they rode in battle. I too have offered a pinch of flour, hung one around my own neck, hoping. But now I’m Eros, virile, god of desire— playful in the mirror. I’ve untucked myself. Watch me rattle my train of blisteringly coloured feathers. I drink whiskey. I shave my chest. I put men on their knees.
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jaxxi.bsky.social
Great poem!
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Thanks Clare 🙏
April 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here...
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
a dark background with blurred colour images from the book cover which is in the foreground - images from the natural world of leaves, seaweed, a feather and pebble are on the cover of Moving Mountains.
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM