FRAN LOCK
Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and fourteen poetry collections. Her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and the PEN Heaney Prize 2024, and 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Her most recent pamphlet is The New Herbal (Blueprint Press, 2024). Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects, a collection of essays exploring feral subjectivity through the medieval bestiary, was published by Out-Spoken Press last year. Fran is a Commissioning Editor at radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She lives in Kent with her sassy American bully, Luna.
and maybe she has a point. we keep telling ourselves we live under patriarchy, but maybe it’s worse than that: if patriarchy is the organised expression of misogyny, then misogyny is patriarchy’s opportunistic, endlessly adaptable mutant fucking spider-baby.
I want a cultural form that is indigestible (or as indigestible as possible) to regimes of power. I want friction. I want something uneasy to assimilate. I choose poetry. Every time I choose poetry.
December 9, 2024