My second full-length collection, Every time I meet you feels like doom, is out now with SARKA. Shipping is free. Come to the launch party/ies.
EVERY TIME I MEET YOU FEELS LIKE DOOM, SARKA PUBLISHING, 2026
“If you’ve ever texted someone a picture of your shadow, or taken out your contact lenses to cry, you have to read these poems. Nobody writes about desire like Poppy Cockburn does.”
— Nadia de Vries
NAKED OYSTER, IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS, 2025
From the publisher:
“Naked Oyster, the debut collection by Poppy Cockburn – author of pamphlets such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and feed notes – gathers 100-odd of her pithiest, prettiest and most coruscating poems. A specialist of the aphorism, the two-to-four liner in her hands is turned like a joke, a curse, a mirror, a glowstick, a dart; precision and point hasn’t achieved this density-per-inch since the Roman eprigrammists of the 2nd Century. Sly, sensual, comely, cruel, in the space of a few seconds each poem manages to be intro, outro, seduction and farewell in one.”
Liquid crystal lovesick demon, broken sleep, 2023
“Here are poems that return the gaze. They dissect it, fetishise it, paint it upon landscapes both expansive and intimate and, with glittering willingness, draw us towards reassembling ourselves among the crystal remnants of having been watched.” — Mau Baiocco
CONFETTI (EX-CERPTS), SALÒ PRESS, 2026
“CONFETTI documents dating app culture in its most performative and vulnerable states – a theater of pathos and comedy, a time lapse of ego in eros. In a book that synthesizes the dopamine of being hit up on Hinge – and the embarrassment of texting back – Minnisean extravagance merges with the strange stakes of a sociologist who finds herself mixed up in her own experiment.”
– Ulyses Razo, author of Personal Life
Waiting room, invisible hand press, 2021
“With bold lyricism and touches of dark humour, Waiting Room shines a light on what it means to connect with someone, and in doing so, redefines romance.”
FEED NOTES, IF A LEAF FALLS, 2021 (edition of 60)
A sequence of micro musings concerned with self image and media-warped perceptions.
EVERYWHERE SWANS, BOTTLECAP PRESS, 2022
“The poems in everywhere swans are interconnected, linked loosely together around the watery site of a relationship. The recurring motif of a swan acts as a touchpoint for reflecting on the complexities of contemporary romance — on disparate values and fluidity, on how withheld communication can fuel obsession, and on how progressive ideals might be challenged by our instincts, or hindered by a lack of language through which to articulate ourselves and explore them safely.”
My poems have appeared in Anthropocene, AFM (A Fucking Magazine), Blush Lit, Rough Trade Books, SPAM Zine, The Rialto, Berlin Lit, NEW: The Journal of American Poetry, Dream Boy Book Club, Discount Guillotine, Dyddiaud Du, Fallow, The Forward Book of Poetry, High Horse, Perverse, Poetry is not a luxury, Strings, Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers, Worms and others.
UPCOMING READINGS
26/10/26 AFK #12: A SPAM Press Poetry Reading Series @ The Doublet, Glasgow. With Andrew Kenower, Roshni Gallagher, Steve Orth, Lindsey Boldt & Kevin Leomo.
10/11/26 ‘Every time I meet you feels like doom’ book launch @ Reference Point, London. With Nadia de Vries, Francesca Kritikos, Ulyses Razo, Ginny Darke & Arcadia Molinas. Plus, Douglas Dare on the decks.
12/11/26 ‘Every time I meet you feels like doom’ book launch @ Bar Nothing, Margate. With Nadia de Vries, Francesca Kritikos, Guy Oliver, Dan Lyons & Aaron Boltt (+ band).
PAST
25/08/26 There is a Party @ The Ivy House, London
with Aea Varfis van Warmelo, Ben Pester, Lucy K Shaw, Orit Gat & Owen Williams. Read the Zona Motel event dispatch.
07/07/26 Skittles Animals launch reading @ Reference Point
with Henry Woodland, Frankie Faccion, Katie Ebbitt, Crispin Best & Karola Karlson
11/06/2026 Zona Motel: British Summer Time @ The Bell, E1
with Iphgenia Baal, Niina Pollari, Lucy K Shaw, Paul Johnathan. Hosted by Kristen Felicetti & Oscar d’Artois
Read the event dispatch on Zona Motel
