Kevin Shaw
@kevinshaw84.bsky.social
Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
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Poppyseed Cake Glazed for Calypso
Mary Pratt
2002
Mary Pratt
2002
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Poppyseed Cake Glazed for Calypso
Mary Pratt
2002
Mary Pratt
2002
Reposted by Kevin Shaw
... Walk
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
—Ross Gay
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
—Ross Gay
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
... Walk
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
—Ross Gay
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
—Ross Gay
Reposted by Kevin Shaw
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
I’m slowly working my way through Pym’s small oeuvre, savouring each book. Enjoyed this discussion of her surprisingly queer novels. lithub.com/on-barbara-p...
On Barbara Pym, Author… and Stalker?
Barbara Pym, a novelist sometimes described as the twentieth-century Jane Austen, was a stalker. Her diaries describe her methods of “finding out” her objects of interest in vivid detail: looking t…
lithub.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m slowly working my way through Pym’s small oeuvre, savouring each book. Enjoyed this discussion of her surprisingly queer novels. lithub.com/on-barbara-p...
One of my favourite poets discussing another of my favourite poets.
My latest Echolocations issue: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of my favourite poets discussing another of my favourite poets.
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“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
Reposted by Kevin Shaw
“We’re all going to hell in a while.”
— Patrizia Cavalli
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This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Patrizia Cavalli
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This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“We’re all going to hell in a while.”
— Patrizia Cavalli
.
.
.
This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Patrizia Cavalli
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This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸