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site last updated:
05/10/24: the bugs make lil sounds on hover now so. i'm absolutely thrilled
04/10/24: layout and font change! coming together now. started on quotes
03/10/24: lots of general housekeeping, filling out pages..
01/10/24: website was born! sooo much to do. i love october
about ₊⊹. ݁₊ ⊹
hello! my name is savannah brown. i'm a writer and internet spirit. you might know me from youtube.
i'm obsessed with communication, intimacy and questions like why are we here and what is the universe and how did that ladybug get inside the house.
i run a small press called doomsday and a yearly poetry challenge called escapril. i've read for the oxford union, toured supported by the english arts council and was the patron of the foyle young poets prize.
i grew up in a small town in ohio and moved to london when i was a teenager. these days i'm american-british (two passports, baby!). at the moment i live in edinburgh with my cats juno and bug. i love being alive, loving the world, loving you.
the only social media i use right now is instagram.
loves: a reaallllyyyy long back scratch, sitting in the shower, getting into bed, escorting bugs out of the house, foggy days
hates: a popcorn kernel lodged in my gums, snuffy nose not relievable by blowing, baths
my girls!
work ⊹ . ݁⋆
lately i post all new writing (+ readings) on patreon. come find me!
the rumination, to do entirely with what I interpret as my social failures, presents itself as important ‘work’: if I keep thinking about this ‘problem’ (the problem being something uncomfortable that I did, felt, thought, or said, or social-me, the general concept of), I’ll finally figure out what about me made the failure happen, and with this knowledge I can become normal, and perfect in my normalcy.
So much of it was true, Sigmund, you who pit the cherry
of the conscious and tongue-tied its stem...
Dove resented her trajectory from Turtle’s sole companion to part of a beloved many, when Dove only ever wanted to be with Turtle. The parties made her sleepy. The nights out made her sleepy. Dove’s love was concentrated, like a laser; Turtle’s love was enormous and indiscriminate, like the sun.
my poetry collections
closer baby closer, 2023 .pdf / buy
sweetdark, 2020 .pdf / buy
graffiti, 2016
teen novels
the things we don't see, 2021
the truth about keeping secrets, 2019
selected interviews + reviews
events
sometimes i read in person! it is a lot of funbut there's nothing planned at the moment . . .
07 11 23 scragg's alley, carlow college, ireland
27 10 23 in conversation, ucl, london
12 10 23 in conversation, dynasty typewriter, los angeles [sold out]
01 10 23 chapter house booth, brooklyn book fest
30 09 23 in conversation, books are magic, brooklyn [sold out]
20 07 23 "WE'RE ALIVE :)", matchstick piehouse, london [sold out]
01 07 23 ms society charity event, the old library, london
28 05 23 performance session, gulp fiction, oxford
21 04 23 poetry night, rondo theatre, bath
31 03 23 swoon, metre squared, london
27 11 22 new and selected poems tour, earth, london
22 11 22 new and selected poems tour, komedia, brighton [sold out]
20 11 22 new and selected poems tour, the sugar club, dublin [sold out]
19 11 22 secret bootleg belfast show!!!, accidental theatre [sold out]
17 11 22 new and selected poems tour, the 13th note, glasgow [sold out]
16 11 22 new and selected poems tour, voodoo rooms, edinburgh [sold out]
13 11 22 new and selected poems tour, gullivers, manchester [sold out]
10 11 22 new and selected poems tour, voodoo daddy's, norwich [sold out]
07 11 22 new and selected poems tour, wardrobe theatre, bristol [sold out]
further links ﾟ+｡*ﾟ+
my email address is savbrownpoetry (at) gmail (dot) com
internet places i like:
a field guide to roadside wildflowers at full speed - for when you're going fast and say hey, what's that?
oblique strategies - old classic, abstract prompts to get you started
cool java stuff - some cutesy copy and pastes, fun to play with if you're learning
melon's texture town - i just think they're neat
website of the guy who invented ':-)' - :-)
photomosh - glitchy image manipulator. i would be nothing without her
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quotes ⋆˙⟡
“...to do something and do it again, from morning till evening, and then to dream of it at night, and to think of nothing except doing this well, as well as I alone can do it...”
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”Rainer Maria Rilke
“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”Carl Jung