Shatter
Justin Tuijl poems 2011-2020
I put all the poems I had, 200 or so, in one book. They are mostly confessional style poems with a sprinkling of avant-garde ones. The first ones may actually go back further as the poem “The Train Rattled” was based on an event in 1995, however, I don’t know exactly when I wrote the poem. Then there were a bunch in 2014 that were for my writing access course which was sort of a reboot of my writing through university and onwards. I was trotting out a lot of poems right up until lockdown, that event kind of broke my writing. Due to the dystopian world events my poems after 2020 were radically different. In-fact the man who wrote those poems woke up big time and the politics and world view of that Justin are not those of this Justin. That was why the book as of 2020 underlined the end of an era.