Poppy Cockburn is a poet based in the seaside town of Margate, UK. She is the author of four slim volumes of poetry, with her most recent —Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon — published by Broken Sleep in 2023. and a full-length collection is forthcoming with If a Leaf Falls press. Elsewhere, she’s been published by Rough Trade Books, Worms magazine, SPAM, A Fucking Magazine, Perverse and others.
‘Am I making the most of it?’ is a performance reading of her ultra-concise, tragi-comic poetry musing on the everyday ephemera of romantic disillusionment, existential panic and desire.