The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
@maxwallis.bsky.social
📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
Me reading my poem Fulcrum published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Effable @jpseabright.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Me reading my poem Fulcrum published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Effable @jpseabright.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are poems that circle a subject, and poems that walk straight into it. The ‘S’ word by Mark Antony Owen is a record of that moment, when someone says it out loud. aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/the-s-word...
May 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There are poems that circle a subject, and poems that walk straight into it. The ‘S’ word by Mark Antony Owen is a record of that moment, when someone says it out loud. aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/the-s-word...
Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
TODAY’S PROMPT: WRITE ABOUT BIRTH
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
TODAY’S PROMPT: WRITE ABOUT BIRTH
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...