Genetics
You know who you remind me of /
your aunt / shriek / the one
with problems /
el / spaz /
tic / paternal aunt // you
know it skips a generation // that’s
why / you’re / fuck / such a pervert /
that’s why you don’t /
HA / look
like me /
your / fuck // shriek //
leg / how the fuck are you going to
walk on that // shriek // stump / are
you off your fucking /
HA / are
you out
of your fucking / HA /
are you out of your fucking MIND /
Cut it Out
Stop / no / he said / stop / no /
he said if I were you
I’d / stop /// cut
that baby out /
no / don’t laugh /
shriek / laugh / he said / who
the fuck / no / who the fuck /
you are / get rid / stop /
cut it out /
shriek / if not
me / then who / stop /
who the fuck / it’s blowing a
gale / stop / it’s blowing a ga
le out there / don’t
laugh / cut it
out / don’t /
stop / don’t stop / no /
stop / stop / don’t / shriek /
/ stop /
/ no /
/ shriek /
/ shriek /
/ shriek /
<br /> / no /
<br />/ shriek /
Amy’s poetry has appeared widely in UK magazines and anthologies, including New Welsh Review, The North, The Poetry of Sex, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, The Stinging Fly and Tears in the Fence. In 2014 her pamphlet Slops was shortlisted for the Poetry School/Pighog Pamphlet Prize and her full-length play My Baby Girl premiered at Manchester’s Three Minute Theatre. Amy’s current project is a collection of poems (Auto-Oedipa) which re-imagines the Oedipus myth. She lives in Aberystwyth.
