Portfolio

Novels

2020:

• "Fable" — My latest book: an antidote to atheism.
• Contact me to read the book for free.

2015:

• "Untitled"

2013:

• "Definition"
• "The Nihilist"

 2012:

• "The Protagonist"

 

Short stories

2015: 

• "Ambition in Paris"

 2014:

• "Letter to a Past and Future Self"
• "Stillness and Motion"
• "The Intricacies of Intimacy/The Dead and the Famous"
• "Careworn" (published in the Cadaverine)
• "A Day in the Life of OCD"
• "Fruits"
• La Retraite (Or, The Retreat)"
• "QED"

 2013:

• "Play" (Part II, Chapter iv from Definition)
• "Marijuana" (Part II, Chapter iii from Definition)
• "Razvod's Monologue" (from The Nihilist)

2012:

• "Closer"
• "The Cliché-Killer" (Literary theory)
• "The Memory Maker"
• "Impossible Is Nothing"
• "The Widower"
• "The Celebration"
• "Anticipation"
• "78 Minutes"
• "One or the Other"
• "Background Noise"
• "Three Walks"
• "Nothing In-between"
• "Momentum"
• "A Sign of Things to Come"
• "Fragments of Fidelity"
• "The Climb"

2011:

• "Your Smile and Mine"
• "The Great Attraction"
• "The Death of Simon Perch"
• "Magnum Opus"

2009:

• "Talking Iris" (monologue)
• "Threshold"
• "Lady Justice"
• "Days"
• "The Unforgiven"

2008:

• "A Man in a Room"
• "The Donor"

 

Essays/philosophical writing

2015:

• "The UK Government's Refusal to Legalise Cannabis" (posted on Medium)

 

2014:

• "Beyond East and West: Herman Hesse's Siddhartha" (published in Black & Blue magazine)
• "Why Do We Mourn Celebrities?"
• "On Israel, Gaza and the Absurdity of Religious Conflict"
• "Mastery in Art"
• "Where Is My Mind?"
• "On Proust"

2013:

• "Three Ways to Live Better"
• "On Doubt, Depression and Despair"
• "Déjà Vu, Transcendence and Freedom"

2012:

• "Nihilism, Existentialism and Philosophical Depression"
• "The Contradictory Nature of God" (Part I)"
• "The Need to Be Original"
• "The Cliché-Killer" (literary theory)
• "Faith and Unfaith"
• "Embracing the Absurd" (Part 1) (Part 2)

 

Plays and Screenplays

2015:

• "Ambition in Paris" (short film taken from short story)

 

2014:

• "Writer's retreat" (short film)
• "Sleep and His Cousin" (comedy)

 

Poetry

2015:

• Deadpan
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 12 November)
• The Great Quell
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 7 November)
• The Taste of Cruelty
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 6 November)
• The Seeds of Time
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 5 November)
• Bite the Bullet
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 2 November)
• At Your Back
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 27 October)
• Something Greater
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 25 October)
• Man of the Year
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 24 October)
• Know Yourself
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 23 October)
• Self-love
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 22 October)
• Fear in the Past Tense
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 21 October)
• The Talent of Faith
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 20 October)
• Fade to Black
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 18 October)
• Home
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 17 October)
• Glass
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 16 October)
• Implication
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 15 October)
• "Nietzsche or Napoleon"
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 14 October)
• "Become"
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 13 October)
• "Seven Solitudes"
  
• (Daily Sonnet: 12 October)
• "Reproach and Reminder"

2014:

• "Misery at Night"
• "Valiambs: A Pharmaceutical Poem"
• "Pensées" (Collection) << (View all)
  1. Pensée: "The Rapper and the Poet"
  2. Pensée: "Difference Between Them"
  3. Pensée: "Undefined"
  4. Pensée: "Reflection on Sussex"
  5. Pensée: "Redux or Composition?"
  6. Pensée: "True Competition"
  7. Pensée: "Tools of Age"
  8. Pensée: "Meaning Beyond Form"
  9. Pensée: "Future Critic"
  10. Pensée: "Displaced Blame"
  11. Pensée: "The Shiver"
  12. Pensée: "Sword with No Handle"
  13. Pensée: "The Desire"
  14. Pensée: "Silence"
  15. Pensée: "Essence, Ephemera"
  16. Pensée: "Autobiography; the Writer's Paradox"
  17. Pensée: "What Drugs Do"
  18. Pensée: "Rodential"
  19. Pensée: "Poems for Addicts"
  20. Pensée: "The Next Breath"
• "Bleed Through"
• "The Venom of the Recluse"
• "You Know You"

2013:

• "The Problem"
• The only poem that matters.
• "Lyrical predation"

2012:

• "The Thinking Cage"
• "Scenes from a Dream"
• "The Art of Fitting In"
• "The Paradox of the Present (and Personhood)"
• "A Glimmer in the Eye"
• "On Looking at My Lover's Face"
• "A Genius Insomniac, A Genius Asleep"
• "Power Hungry"
• "C Is For Cauterisation"
• "B Is For Bitterness"
• "A Is For Alienation"
• "Fossil Fuels"
• "Irony, Opulence, Reality"
• "'What shall we ever do?'"
• "Conscientious Consequences"
• "Libidinal"
• "The Quiet Hour"
• "Expletive"
• "Endgame"
• "On Dying Young" (Part I - II - III)
• "A Love Poem"
• "Sweat" (Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII)
• "Labernism -> Logic" (Parts I - IV, VI - VII, IX - XI)
• "I Used To" (Parts I - IV, V - VII)
• "Lost & Found"
• "You Know Who You Are (Jealousy & Hate)" (Parts I - V, VI - XI)
• "The Cliché-Killer"
• "The Prognosis of a Passionate Man" (Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII)
• "Authenticity & Acquiescence"
• "Vertigo" -- (song)
• "What I Want"
• "420"
• "Wait/Satiate"
• "Flitter" -- (song)
• "No Battery"
• "The Space Between Friends"
• "Locus"
• "Print"
• "Refrain"
• "White Lies"
• "Amelioration"
• "Who Would Have Thought...?"
• "21"

2011:

• "The Cold Side"
• "I Wonder & I Whisper"
• "Two Nights Ago"
• "Tomorrow Night"
• "A Leaf in the Wind"
• "Without Misery"
• "A Flame from an Ember"
• "An Asymmetry, in Four Unequal Parts"
• "The Philosopher"
• "Drowning in Numbers/Floating in Isolation"
• "A Humanist's Sensibilities"
• "Reader to Writer"
• "WIPL?"
• "A Taste"
• "X"
• "An Open Question"
• "It"
• "You and Your Complaints"
• "A Picture of the Future"
• "Well-known Woe"
• "Soft"
• "The Pilot Light"
• "The Mirror in the Sky"
• "Lascivious Lamentations"
• "Copula"
• "Weathered Ethics"
• "A Day Like Any Other"
• "One and Oneself"
• "Inseparable"
• "On Failure Breeding Success"
• "Decay of Personality"
• "The End: A Conversation with Death"
• "Success"
• "The Window"
• "Through and Through"
• "Two Short Poems"
• "Of Space and Time"
• "Appearances"
• "Best of Both Worlds"
• "Fields"
• "The Wonderer/The Wanderer"
• "Dreams"
• "Change/Contradictions"
• "Doubt" (Part 1) (Part 2)
• "To A Blister"
• "Over/Thinking"
• "100%"
• "To Sobriety"
• "In Haste"
• "Man & Machine"
• "Reel"
• "On the Shoulders of Giants"
• "Twisting Clichés"
• "Signature"
• "Is There A Place...?"
• "Sonnet to My Lover"
• "The Philosophy of Love"
• "Bark/Bite"
• "On Procrastination"

2010:

• "Dichotomy"
• "You Have Your Answer"
• "The Pink Russian"
• "The Mountain"
• "Nightmare"
• "Footprint"
• "Dope"
• "Life in the Ring"
• "I Am Resolve"
• "Certain Satan"
• "What's the Difference?"
• "The Answer's Reason"
• "What We Could All Do With"
• "A Poem Which Address the Question:..."
• "May I?"
• "A Really Happy Poem..."
• "Effervescent Admiration"
• "Subversion"
• "Before I Die"
• "Resume"
• "Combustion Triangle"
• "To England in Spring"
• "The Human Condition"
• "Silence's Slave"
• "Interlude"
• "Taster"
• "Incendiary Words"
• "Psychoactive"
• "Ode to Resolve"
• "Memorandum"
• "Ode to Oneself"
• "Introspection Identification"
• "The Drink"
• "Finally"
• "Ode to Age & Judgement"
• "Ode to Drive"
• "Ode to Innocence & Beauty"
• "Quintessential"
• "Cerebral Storm"
• "A Room With a Thousand Doors"
• "Window of Opportunity"
• "Take Hold"
• "Off My Chest"
• "Concise Advice"
• "Colourless Reflection"
• "Lyrical Sums"
• "Closure"
• "Double Entendre"
• "Asynchronous Exchange (Or: How to Mock Those Who Deserve It)"
• "And I will miss you, when you leave..."
• "The Diamond Melted"
• "Shapeshifter (part 1)"
• "Half"
• "Two Syllables"
• "Life's Addiction"
• "4/20-99"

2009:

• "2009"
• "Christmas Truce"
• "Zeal"
• "Keyhole"
• "A Godless Path"
• "Summit"
• "Point Blank"
• "The Loner"
• "D.E.W."
• "Extradition"
• "Romantique"
• "Declaration of War"
• "Mirror -- Night"
• "Mirror -- Day"
• "Unbound"
• "Some Shine in Sunshine"
• "Labern's Love Lost"
• "The Wound + The Stich"
• "Mind Weather -- Rain"
• "Study"
• "The Confident Two"
• "Blood Is Ink"
• "The Loved"
• "Godless & Calm"
• "'Till You Collapse/The Aggressive"
• "The Lonely" (Parts I & II, III & IV)
• "The War on Hugs" (Part 2 of 2)
• "To Die is to Live, To Live is to Die"
• "Seven"
• "The Naive" (Part 1 of 2)
• "The Confident One"
• "Fade -- Part 1"
• "Ally"
• "A Look at Labern"
• "The Creative Killer"
• "Painkiller"

Academic essays — coming 2015

The following essays all received a First-class grade. I place them online to encourage students to study my work as exemplars of the advice I give when I proofread.

2014:

• On the Philosophical Novel, Philosophical Attention and Dostoevsky (Philosophy dissertation)
• Adam Smith, self-interest and ethical behaviour (English dissertation)

 

2013:

• On Quine (Philosophy of Language)
• On Names (Philosophy of Language)
• Dual-narration in Bleak House (English Literature)
• On David Copperfield as writer (English Literature)
• Heidegger: anxiety vs. the ready-to-hand (Phenomenology)
• Frank Jackson's Mary thought experiment (Philosophy of Mind)
• What is the significance of the mathematisation of nature? (Phenomenology)
• Are sensations brain processes? (Philosophy of Mind)
• On Kant: what is the significance of the noumenal? (Philosophy)
• On Kant: what is a 'critique of pure reason'? (Philosophy)
• Form and Content in Robinson Crusoe (English Literature, labelled 'too original')

2012:

• Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (English Literature)
• On existentialism (Philosophy of Religion)
• Rejection of the claim that 'belief in God is a epistemically basic belief' (Philosophy of Religion)
• Frank O'Hara's 'Personism' (English Literature)
• Formal innovation, Modernism and The Waste Land (English Literature exam)
• Predicate Logic (100% score exam)

2011:

• The Paradox of Time Travel (Philosophical Reasoning)
• 'The Modern Prometheus' in Frankenstein (English Literature)

 

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