Joe Carrick-Varty

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

My book BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanetpress) is officially out in the world!
Big love to everyone who came to the launch last night, and to @burleyfisher for hosting. I’m somehow hungover off zero alcohol beer.
If you come across the book in the wild, I hope you connect in some way with the poems.

Books are here! BEFORE VIOLENCE is here!!! Out with @carcanetpress on March 26th 💙
Books are here! BEFORE VIOLENCE is here!!! Out with @carcanetpress on March 26th 💙

Modelling the new @poetryfoundation tote bags which feature a quote from my essay remembering Gboyega.
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
All new subscribers to the magazine get one of these totes… pretty cool!
Big love to the team @adrian.matejka @amoshmarie @garbls 🩵

Modelling the new @poetryfoundation tote bags which feature a quote from my essay remembering Gboyega.
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
All new subscribers to the magazine get one of these totes… pretty cool!
Big love to the team @adrian.matejka @amoshmarie @garbls 🩵

Modelling the new @poetryfoundation tote bags which feature a quote from my essay remembering Gboyega.
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
All new subscribers to the magazine get one of these totes… pretty cool!
Big love to the team @adrian.matejka @amoshmarie @garbls 🩵

Modelling the new @poetryfoundation tote bags which feature a quote from my essay remembering Gboyega.
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
All new subscribers to the magazine get one of these totes… pretty cool!
Big love to the team @adrian.matejka @amoshmarie @garbls 🩵

Modelling the new @poetryfoundation tote bags which feature a quote from my essay remembering Gboyega.
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
THE POETS HAVE EMERGED
All new subscribers to the magazine get one of these totes… pretty cool!
Big love to the team @adrian.matejka @amoshmarie @garbls 🩵

The last three years have been the hardest of my life so far. Lots of funerals. Lots of change. Somewhere along the way I wrote a book. It’s called BEFORE VIOLENCE, and it’s coming out with @carcanetpress in March (and it’s currently a @poetrybooksociety Spring Recommendation) 🌱🩵

My dad passed away last week after a long struggle with alcoholism. He’d been in a coma at the beginning of this year and again the Christmas before last. It’s strange. I’ve spent so long waiting for him to die. Throughout my life he died again and again but he always came back. And when he came back he told me none of it was my fault, that he loved me and was proud of me.
One of his friends described him yesterday as ‘beautiful and difficult’, and I think that’s perfect.
One of our last conversations was about the new pram he’d bought us. He’d saved £200 of his PIP to make sure Cillian had a winter pram with a rain cover.
Dad, I love you so much. I hope you know that. And I hope you can now, finally, rest.

My dad passed away last week after a long struggle with alcoholism. He’d been in a coma at the beginning of this year and again the Christmas before last. It’s strange. I’ve spent so long waiting for him to die. Throughout my life he died again and again but he always came back. And when he came back he told me none of it was my fault, that he loved me and was proud of me.
One of his friends described him yesterday as ‘beautiful and difficult’, and I think that’s perfect.
One of our last conversations was about the new pram he’d bought us. He’d saved £200 of his PIP to make sure Cillian had a winter pram with a rain cover.
Dad, I love you so much. I hope you know that. And I hope you can now, finally, rest.

The third poem in PERVERSE 9A is ‘Drive This Tired’ by Joe Carrick-Varty (@joecarrickvarty). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a (link in bio)

The third poem in PERVERSE 9A is ‘Drive This Tired’ by Joe Carrick-Varty (@joecarrickvarty). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a (link in bio)

Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy! And with Gboyega! Well this would have been a fun one 🩵☁️

Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy! And with Gboyega! Well this would have been a fun one 🩵☁️

A month late on the uptake but……. a poem from MY NEXT BOOK (2026) was published in the June issue of Poetry Magazine @poetryfoundation!
‘And Then the Sky Pulls Up in a Silver VW Polo’
Here’s a pic of me crouching in front of my very own VW Polo (that may or may not have inspired this poem).

A month late on the uptake but……. a poem from MY NEXT BOOK (2026) was published in the June issue of Poetry Magazine @poetryfoundation!
‘And Then the Sky Pulls Up in a Silver VW Polo’
Here’s a pic of me crouching in front of my very own VW Polo (that may or may not have inspired this poem).

A month late on the uptake but……. a poem from MY NEXT BOOK (2026) was published in the June issue of Poetry Magazine @poetryfoundation!
‘And Then the Sky Pulls Up in a Silver VW Polo’
Here’s a pic of me crouching in front of my very own VW Polo (that may or may not have inspired this poem).

I have a poem in the Spring issue of @thepoetrysociety.
The title is borrowed from the last line of Gboyega’s poem ‘A Potted History of East’, which is a poem I think about all the time, and a poem I wrote about for the latest issue of @magma__poetry.
Time is zooming at the moment. By the end of April it will be a year since we published the last issue of bath magg. I loved doing the magazine with Gboyega. It was such fun scheming… burrowing around… planning which big cheese poet to ask for a poem next. I remember a dream of ours was to publish a poem by Anne Carson. We got close a few times, emailing with her agent, but we could never afford her fee.
(I remember, and this was near the beginning, way before we got funding and could pay poets, Gboyega and I in a pub deciding whether or not it was a good idea to offer Anne Carson’s agent £100 of our own money for a poem 😂 We had no idea what we were doing!)
Soon it will be 2 years since Gboyega passed, 3 years since we got matching duck tattoos, 6 years since bath magg started.
I miss you bro 🩵

I have a poem in the Spring issue of @thepoetrysociety.
The title is borrowed from the last line of Gboyega’s poem ‘A Potted History of East’, which is a poem I think about all the time, and a poem I wrote about for the latest issue of @magma__poetry.
Time is zooming at the moment. By the end of April it will be a year since we published the last issue of bath magg. I loved doing the magazine with Gboyega. It was such fun scheming… burrowing around… planning which big cheese poet to ask for a poem next. I remember a dream of ours was to publish a poem by Anne Carson. We got close a few times, emailing with her agent, but we could never afford her fee.
(I remember, and this was near the beginning, way before we got funding and could pay poets, Gboyega and I in a pub deciding whether or not it was a good idea to offer Anne Carson’s agent £100 of our own money for a poem 😂 We had no idea what we were doing!)
Soon it will be 2 years since Gboyega passed, 3 years since we got matching duck tattoos, 6 years since bath magg started.
I miss you bro 🩵

I have a poem in the Spring issue of @thepoetrysociety.
The title is borrowed from the last line of Gboyega’s poem ‘A Potted History of East’, which is a poem I think about all the time, and a poem I wrote about for the latest issue of @magma__poetry.
Time is zooming at the moment. By the end of April it will be a year since we published the last issue of bath magg. I loved doing the magazine with Gboyega. It was such fun scheming… burrowing around… planning which big cheese poet to ask for a poem next. I remember a dream of ours was to publish a poem by Anne Carson. We got close a few times, emailing with her agent, but we could never afford her fee.
(I remember, and this was near the beginning, way before we got funding and could pay poets, Gboyega and I in a pub deciding whether or not it was a good idea to offer Anne Carson’s agent £100 of our own money for a poem 😂 We had no idea what we were doing!)
Soon it will be 2 years since Gboyega passed, 3 years since we got matching duck tattoos, 6 years since bath magg started.
I miss you bro 🩵

I have a poem in the Spring issue of @thepoetrysociety.
The title is borrowed from the last line of Gboyega’s poem ‘A Potted History of East’, which is a poem I think about all the time, and a poem I wrote about for the latest issue of @magma__poetry.
Time is zooming at the moment. By the end of April it will be a year since we published the last issue of bath magg. I loved doing the magazine with Gboyega. It was such fun scheming… burrowing around… planning which big cheese poet to ask for a poem next. I remember a dream of ours was to publish a poem by Anne Carson. We got close a few times, emailing with her agent, but we could never afford her fee.
(I remember, and this was near the beginning, way before we got funding and could pay poets, Gboyega and I in a pub deciding whether or not it was a good idea to offer Anne Carson’s agent £100 of our own money for a poem 😂 We had no idea what we were doing!)
Soon it will be 2 years since Gboyega passed, 3 years since we got matching duck tattoos, 6 years since bath magg started.
I miss you bro 🩵

I have a poem in the Spring issue of @thepoetrysociety.
The title is borrowed from the last line of Gboyega’s poem ‘A Potted History of East’, which is a poem I think about all the time, and a poem I wrote about for the latest issue of @magma__poetry.
Time is zooming at the moment. By the end of April it will be a year since we published the last issue of bath magg. I loved doing the magazine with Gboyega. It was such fun scheming… burrowing around… planning which big cheese poet to ask for a poem next. I remember a dream of ours was to publish a poem by Anne Carson. We got close a few times, emailing with her agent, but we could never afford her fee.
(I remember, and this was near the beginning, way before we got funding and could pay poets, Gboyega and I in a pub deciding whether or not it was a good idea to offer Anne Carson’s agent £100 of our own money for a poem 😂 We had no idea what we were doing!)
Soon it will be 2 years since Gboyega passed, 3 years since we got matching duck tattoos, 6 years since bath magg started.
I miss you bro 🩵
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