Poetry Collection: Constellations with Batteries and Sellotape

Constellations with batteries and sellotape

By Sam Astrophel

My first poetry collection is out! You can check out the preview on the link above, and if you like it you can buy it on Blurb, Amazon, and Apple iBooks!

The adorable deer on the front cover was designed by the amazing Ariadne Tzoun, whose art you can find at Ariadne's Thread.

"I’m saving up for an airport, a city center and a park, cause I already own a phone on which you called me to ask if I was coming, always asking if I’m coming as if in another universe you wanted me there. I want to own a dancefloor that won’t remind me of your body pressed warm against my own. Maybe I’ll buy a disco ball instead, to plug it in my stomach, and electrocute the butterflies." A poetry collection dealing with consuming love, heartbreak and pain, adulthood and helplessness, anxiety and depression, family, gender identity and sexuality.

A few words about me:

I am a genderfluid student of philosophy, human rights and education. I am passionate about equality, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ rights and the destigmatization of mental illness, and I adore writing poetry since sometimes I inconveniently feel a lot of things. I have a dream of teaching and nurturing some day.
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Here's my face, as well as my kitty and her paw.