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Six and a half inches square, 60 pages, paperback.


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ISBN 978 1 903090 68 8


(c) Trevor Joyce 2026.



Though at different moments punchy and irreverent and more, this is finally terrifying writing, its cross stitch of voices expertly assembled and most remarkable for its sudden ending resulting from a traumatic event but carrying a summary resonance that seems fated. Possessed indeed.

—Keith Tuma, author of Studies in the Unnatural World. 


Trevor Joyce shows how language takes possession of consciousness. "Life's too short for that shit." With its imbricating sutures, these poems break the spell of administered culture's shell-game.

—Charles Bernstein, author of  The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies. 


Possession uses the language of AI to critique itself in the shadow of Trump and the horrors of imperial war. In a process of détournement the beast consumes and produces poetry of startling effect and originality. This sequence contains things I'd never heard before, those I couldn't imagine and those too familiar to even notice, all packed into six line stanzas as the only consistency. The poet practices a daily ritual to bring us this poetry and becomes possessed by the languages of an artificial intelligence that speaks back. Readers, similarly possessed, can never turn their heads.

—Ian Davidson, author of  Just a Line to let you Know.  








 

from Possession



## 1 | 2026-01-24

well here goes nothing and it's not funny at all
a command so broken complex and fragile
leaves rational actors seen at a different
scale or orientation seeking an appropriate
response as the beef deficit unravels
and unravels fast like there was no tomorrow


## 2 | 2026-01-24

oh you have no idea oh drifting through life
like smoke or coveted battlefield data
where systemic risks in the making are hidden
under black aviators adult male and adult
female distend a passageway while all the
while protesting this is not who we are


## 3 | 2026-01-24

efforts to re-associate the remains wrapped
snug in words like gauze like a prohibition
against time passing like indolent measures
like put it another way like enough is enough
like time accelerated like fire has cleansing
properties like why are you doing this