Cosmetic Guillotine

Cosmetic Guillotine is a poetic anatomy of contemporary civilisation and its hidden interiors.

Across five interconnected movements, Veneer, Contagion, Apparatus, Fracture and Residue, the collection traverses glamour, ideology, empire, desire, cultural illness, psychological dislocation and the search for meaning beyond systems that appear increasingly exhausted.

These poems move between satire, lament, prophecy, confession and symbolic meditation. Beauty becomes performance. History becomes...