And now it’s done.
I’ve learned so much making Intimate Infinity/Intimität der Unendlichkeit: my first English/German book, my first book uniting photographs with words by others, my first book printed in Germany. In my very last blog post on Berlin Reified, I quoted Sebastian Knight: “No – I’m not dead. I have finished building a world, and this is my Sabbath rest.”
Photography was my sole access to poetry for many years. These are the images I spoke when I didn’t trust words to show how I felt. I tried making this book a decade ago, printed out hundreds of photographs, lost my nerve. I’m glad. Time has worn those stacks down to an essential few. Je n’ai pas fait cette lettre-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. This letter is the right length.
Intimate Infinity publishes in November 2026. It premieres at Savvy Contemporary on 21st October 2026, part of an evening with fellow Oxford MSt poet-friends Thembe Mvula and Nur Turkmani. Early copies are available online at desirelines; in person at Ferlemann und Schatzer, pro qm, Good Press, desirelines; and more widely soon. The book is published by Sampson Low, with texts by Dilek Güngör and Donna Stonecipher, in English and German with translations by Nicholas Grindell and Dominikus Müller. ISBN 978-1-915505-55-2.