About Headstone:
Headstone is a collection of poetry and it has felt necessary to write. The text was, in its inception, an autoethnographic work born out of trauma-informed research practice. These poems were written alongside more academic texts as a way to process what those academic texts were addressing. As a standalone collection of poetry, however, it represents the aftermath of violence, a delayed protest. It is, therefore, a text that seeks closure which might otherwise have been impossible. Yet this writing is also a way to remember, to immortalise the traces of that violence which leves beautiful, bruised patterns across life.
The text is accompanied by photographs, often capturing views upward toward the rooftops—much like one might do when trying to articulate a thought that has yet to be put to words.