“Witty and self-deprecating and instantly relatable.”
-VALLUM
Written over the course of two summers following the poet’s 33rd birthday.
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 ✔
Blasé satanism ?
An elegy for desire ✔
A meditation on death ?
A bisexual epic ✔
An unrelenting affirmation that “this world is all there is” ✔
Obsession, delusion, solitude, longing. That’s the thing with The Island.
THE ISLAND, a book-length haiku by Oscar d'Artois
with artwork by Mad Manning
Coming June 4th, 2024
it recedes again
forever moving away
the island of course
is not real, a construct of
imagination
it’s not like i’ve never been
but there’s a difference
between how i represent
it in my mind’s eye
& how things actually are