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Ian Duhig
“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.” – Derrida
Let the bug that bit my arm for its hit end up dead quick a songbird’s snack, its sharp gone flat, my blood one note from an airy strain in this bird’s throat my ears feed back then around again, an electrifying vibe where verbs reverb and nouns resound around nerves and swerve down a line that runs along my groovy tongue, my disc-stacked spine, to my record arm, the spindle my pen and the stylus I am that kicks or jumps at bumps for a fix of a song of a bug of a jab for an itch of a thrush, its stab or this drug which I pick like a scab.
Ian Duhig’s New and Selected Poems was awarded the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and his latest book, An Arbitrary Light Bulb, was the Winter 2024 Poetry Book Society Choice.