D'ARTOIS, Oscar
The Island

Written over the course of two summers following the poet’s 33rd birthday, The Island is a Miltonesque hyperpop haiku of:

Longing for an irretrievable beach paradise ✔

Yearning for an abandoned tower to hide in ✔

(Failing to) deal with ageing by building a hot transcendent yoga body ✔

Loving convenience in spite of yourself ✔

A manifesto against self-optimization ✔

A blasé satanic cosmogony ?

An elegy for desire ✔

A meditation on death ?

A bisexual epic ✔

An unrelenting affirmation that “this world is all there is” ✔

With illustrations by Mad Manning.

[publishers’ note]

Published by Shabby Doll House, 2024
Poetry