Selected excerpts
“The Fool carries a white rose in his left hand. He is standing on a precipice with laurel leaves on his head, and the sleeves of the ugly tunic he is wearing appear to be on fire.”
From “Missing" (fiction by Erin Scudder) performed at Catastrophes Occasional Reading Series, December 2022.
“Magna Carta: the keystone of democracy; formalised freedom’s platonic original. The stirruped cock that fathered a million legislative tots.”
From “Two Different Decembers" (fiction by Erin Scudder) shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature international writing prize, published in Eleven Stories 2021 and The London Magazine.
“Vol-au-vent. White /
dough-puffed star. You /
lonesome boom town. /
Côte d’ivoire”
From "Hollywood Hills Woman" (poem by Erin Scudder) published in Truth or Beauty: Poetry and Biography (Seraph Press).
“The dunes ululate in a solid way /
like the ruffled rock of oyster lips.”
From “Jewel Box” (poem by Erin Scudder) published in Sweet Mammalian.
“Sometimes the pull of love has scared me, / as gravity would scare a glass perched on the lip of a bench.”
From AUP New Poets 4: Harry Jones, Erin Scudder, Chris Tse (three poet anthology).