Scott Bagley - collected poems

I wrote a poem about a landslide before it happened. It sat in the typewriter, on the kitchen table, while the house was ripped in two.

"What is broken and cannot be mended must become something other" is an 80 page collection of poetry by Scott Bagley spanning the last decade, an atlas charting matter, mind and heart. Lovingly and rustically typeset on a (possibly) cursed/enchanted typewriter and hand-sealed with a stamp. "What is broken and cannot be mended must become something other" will be strictly limited to a total of 108 copies only. It will not be reproduced in a digital format.

I am a poet, filmmaker, ecologist and activist living and creating from the fringes, perched on the edge of a tidal inlet nestled amongst the spoonbills and sealions. 

This is a solo project compiling poems from the last 10 years. It has taken me some time to muster the courage, self confidence (and executive function) to give these personal truths their final physical form. I believe they deserve to be seen and I am looking forward to these words finding their way into the world - your help in doing so is deeply appreciated. Thank you.

Money raised here will cover the printing, binding and any final layout costs. 

For me, poetry is a way to make sense of experiences and to examine the personal through the lens of the universal. This collection of poems is an exercise in mapping the subconscious and transmuting feeling into language - by teasing apart and reweaving threads of self and other. It chronicles a particularly unsettled and  unpredictable period of my life. Each expression is an act of healing.

In an alienating and extractive modern culture that prioritises material productivity, utility, transactional efficiency and external image over inner landscape -- creating (without these in mind) is how we resist and transform. 

These lines that join things together are ours to draw.