Author of TIGER (Quercus, 2019), LARCHFIELD (Quercus, 2017) and four collections of poetry. TS Eliot Prize shortlistee. New novel OCEAN serialised on Substack.
Apr 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Hello everyone! Thank you for this amazing welcome into freedom! And a call to all the magnificent anons! I’m writing a piece about Jean and anonymity so I thought I’d use the platform you’ve given me overnight to reach out for your stories… 1/6
The great names on these anon accounts, big & small, the brave and funny voices behind them, & most of all the striving to do something & connect. It moves me so much, I see myself in you! Being anon is so much a part of women’s history. This incarnation is extraordinary… 2/6
Apr 18 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Dear followers of Jean Rhys! I have an announcement which I thought I would never be able to make. Thanks to the Cass Report, I feel I can shed my anonymity and Jean Rhys, who has protected me for five tumultuous years, can finally retire… 1/12
I’m a published novelist and poet, with at the time, a book deal with a big 5 publisher. Five years ago I sat at my kitchen table, feeling very much alone and scared as I watched the relentless march of gender ideology from incel hinterlands into the mainstream… 2/12
Aug 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
#TenTweets about SEX (not the fun kind!). 1. Sex is real. Until six years ago everyone knew knew this. Now they still know it, but pretend they don't. (see alternative #tentweets on gaslighting). The question is Why? 1/11
2. If you pretend that sex isn't real and people have 'essences' that transcend material reality (just like in the olden days!) a funny thing happens. You become cooler, more popular and have access to more professional opportunities. 2/11
