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The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 87 - Sound Twins - One Word, Two WorldsYesterday’s prompt was a roaring success with a number of people sending me poems. So let’s continue down that path. Words have more than one world in them. “Still” means unmoving. But it also means still here. Still happening. “Spare” means extra, but it also means to spare someone, to wound less. “Slip” can be falling or a piece of silk.You don’t need to define the word… just hold both meanings.How can you make us shake with the double-meaning?Here’s a not-very-good-example:StillYou are still.As in qu...2025-07-2501 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 86 - The Rot That Reckons In: Writing Through WordplayThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.We often think of “wordplay” as something clever, maybe even flippant. But in poetry, it can be far more serious. Wordplay can be griefplay. It can be an exorcism. It can be a reckoning.Take the word routine. It sounds safe. Clinical. A daily procedure. But say it aloud, slowly, and you’ll begin to hear other words buried inside it:* route in — a way in, or a breach...2025-07-2402 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 85 - Write in fragments - The Daily AftershockWelcome to day 85 of the Daily Aftershock.Today I want you to write in fragments.I want you to actually come up with a sequence of one or two line utterances, I guess is a better way of saying it.And you could almost lean into sort of epigrams or things like that.But basically I want the poem as a whole to be fragmentary. So each individual statement is different. But as a whole, they create a poem.I don't know if that quite makes sense....2025-07-2200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 84 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a prose poemWrite a prose poem that captures a quiet, unnoticed moment where the past makes itself known, not through memory, but through sensation and the body itself. Let the moment unfold in your body first: a flicker, a tension, a smell, a shift in light. Avoid dramatic revelation; instead, stay with the subtleties. The poem should move like a fog creeping into a familiar room.Optional guiding lines to begin with:* There are mornings the air folds around me like gauze...* I take my meds like sacraments...* The past doesn’t knock. It...2025-07-2100 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)I Am a Woman from the Tribe of Sorrow by Muzhgan SagharIt is an honour to publish Muzhgan Saghar in this first issue of The Aftershock Review. Born in Kabul in 1977, Muzhgan fled Taliban rule in 2000 and has since made her home in Germany, where she works as a teacher. Her poetry carries the urgency of survival, the ache of exile, and the undimmed force of a voice that refuses to be silenced.This poem arrives like a flare. It speaks from the fractured edge of history, where language becomes both wound and witness. In her lines, we hear what it means to have lived through the unthinkable...2025-07-1902 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 83 - Write an obituaryGood morning, today I want you to write a poem in the style of an obituary.If you’re not already coming, we have an event at John Rylands this evening: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aftershock-review-launch-at-john-rylands-research-institute-and-library-tickets-1415279130979?aff=oddtdtcreatorAll the bestMax This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-1700 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Apologies for the brief pause - hopefully back to normal service soon!Hello everyone,I’ve moved into a new house and getting it renovated so there’s a delay while I get it all sorted. The good news is it should be finished soon and I’ll have a lot more time to focus back on all things Podcast etc.Max This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-1501 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 82 - Write a prayer to your... plumbing!So, quickly, today I want you to consider writing a prayer to an object that you take advantage of / ignore because it’s an integral part of your life.For example, a slowly corroding radiator pipe.A light in the bathroom.The cooker fan.Your air-fryer.What do you wish to praise in case it decides to stop working after all these long years?Because in a sense the architecture of a place holds us. It can betray us too, of course, but it...2025-07-0800 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 81 - What would you rewire? What DIY task can you write into poetry? - The Daily AftershockI have plasterers in right now, and I had an electrician in yesterday redoing some sockets. Here’s a poem I wrote. Admittedly it wasn’t me doing the rewiring. But I also ask you - what other task can you make into a poem?Rewiringby Max WallisFirst, you kill the switch.The whole house hums a final shiver then goes quiet.Somewhere, Alexa stops mid-speech.Second, you pull back plasterunravel another’s intentions:braided wires, logic onlythey knew, tucked into a wall out of sight.Third, you stripand then, naked, strip the wi...2025-07-0801 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 80 - Write nature into love poetry - The Daily AftershockToday I want you to write nature into love poetry. Include dialogue between two people in a setting that talks about the environment.Use my poem Crowns, published by The Rialto in January as a framework: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-0601 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 79 - Write a numerical litany - feat. Zero to Ten by Max Wallis - The Daily AftershockNumbers often shape the contours of memory, myth, and identity. From the symbolic void of zero to the finality (or possibility) of ten, today's challenge is to explore what each digit holds for us personally, poetically, or philosophically.What do numbers mean to you? Could "three" be a trio of childhood bedrooms, "seven" a lucky escape, or "zero" the moment you felt truly free? Write your own numerical litany.Max This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry...2025-07-0502 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 78 - Your Renovation - The Daily AftershockGood morning everyone, I appreciate I’m behind on things! I’m between two houses and also organising renovation works which includes mending rotten joists beneath the floorboards in my front room, choosing carpets (or wood), and getting my new house dampproofed.Which led me to this prompt - What part of you would you change? And more importantly, what part would you not change, despite the trauma or rot it might hold?PS I finally have wifi but I am whizzing about sorting things so it might be a bit of a dela...2025-07-0401 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 77 - Write about the home - The Daily AftershockToday, write about the home.Whether that’s the home you’ve found, the home you’ve left, or the home you want.Write about the home as metaphor, or as bricks and mortar, or emotional. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-0200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 76 - Be loud and unapologetic (Max won Verve Poem of the Month!) - The Daily AftershockGood morning everybody!So I won VERVE Poetry’s June Poem of the Month with my poem Thinking of how many elevatorsAs they say here:Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces of public spaces, the poem stops itself mid judgmental-thought to remind the poet and reader that their judgement is also their behaviour. This poem calls out shame and owns its need to...2025-07-0102 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 75 - Poetry Mirrored in Red and Green: Write a red flag/green flag mirror poem- The Daily AftershockIn life, red flags seize our attention – warnings etched in sharp attitudes and uneasy behaviours. Green flags, their subtle opposites, quietly invite trust. Today, we'll write both into being, each reflecting the other.I want you to write a duet poem, or a mirror poem, where the first poem looks at red flags, and after the major break or volta, the poem twists to show the green flags that are present in your new life.Part I: Poeticise the Red Flags1. Lean into abstraction* Distort each warning sign into a metaphor. Go...2025-06-2902 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 74 - Grab the nearest book to youThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today is a quick one. Grab the nearest book to you, open to a random page and closing your eyes pick a random word. Do it again. Once you have seven words use them in a poem. I know it might sound silly but sometimes that’s all you need to start you off! This is a public episode. If yo...2025-06-2800 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 73 - Write an Acrostic Poem - The Daily AftershockToday I want you to write an acrostic poem. This is a poem where the first letters of every line spell out a word.Choose a word or phrase that holds power for you—grief, survival, home, protest, tenderness, Aftershock itself. Perhaps lean into unconventional words: WHAT THEN? for example could be more interesting from an editor’s point of view than reading the word LOVE spelled vertically.Write a poem where each line begins with a letter from your chosen word, in order.Keep it raw. Let the shap...2025-06-2701 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 72 - The Daily Aftershock - The Kissing Gate with Dr Anna PercyIt's Dr Anna Percy here with a prompt for the Daily Aftershock. I'm asking you to try and find a very large piece of paper which might for you mean A4 but if you have a large drawing pad preferably unlined, that would be a good piece of paper, or stick two pieces of paper together for this prompt.So I want you to think about a kissing gate, which is a kind of gate that exists in the countryside, usually to stop animals like sheep and cows from getting from one field to another but because...2025-06-2601 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Synagogue Music by Michael HorovitzEditorial Note by Max WallisMichael Horovitz (1935–2021)Synagogue Music was one of Michael Horovitz’s most urgent and unflinching late poems; a lament and interrogation of inherited law, identity, and generational dissonance. The audio in this post is from a reading by his son Adam Horovitz live in Bermondsey in 2023, the poem now resonates with added force as both protest and elegy.With characteristic wordplay, rage, and compassion, Horovitz questions the rigidities of tradition and the burdens passed from father to son, elder to youth. Its final cry, in this extract from Michael’s long...2025-06-2501 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 71 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a litany for yourselfThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A litany is a form of poetic repetition often used in prayer or invocation. For today’s Aftershock prompt, you’re invited to write a litany for yourself… not in supplication, but in survival. A chant. A naming. A mantra of what you’ve endured, reclaimed, or are still holding.You might begin every line with:* I am the one who...* Let me remember...* Because I lived...2025-06-2501 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 70 - The Daily Aftershock - Seventh of the SeventhToday we are looking at folklore.Write a poem about the seventh child of a seventh child; a figure steeped in myth and mystery. Play with your lines. Write seven of them.Do they walk through storms unharmed? Do they rise in a shattered towerblock whern others don’t?Do birds fall silent when they speak?What is their inheritance? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...2025-06-2400 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)A Scattered Set by Adam HorovitzEditorial Note by Max Wallis - exclusive to SubstackWhat do we inherit when a loved one dies? A silver spoon, a catchphrase, a question left unanswered. In A Scattered Set, Adam Horovitz offers a poignant triptych that spans memory, exile, intimacy, and the legacy of kinship, both personal and poetic. Written in memory of his father, the great poet Michael Horovitz, the triptych traces a physical and emotional lineage through a single, recurring object: the spoon.Beginning with Maker’s Mark, we are handed not just an heirloom, but a fragment of a refugee’s su...2025-06-2404 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 69 - The Daily Aftershock - You Avoid the News Just in Case - Write a villanelleToday, I invite you to write a villanelle, the poetic form that refuses to forget. With its pattern of repeating lines and tight rhyme, the villanelle lends itself to obsession, grief, survival, and transformation.A villanelle has 19 lines:* 5 tercets (three-line stanzas)* 1 quatrain (four-line stanza)* The first and third lines of the opening stanza return in a strict pattern throughout the poem.* The rhyme scheme follows: ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAAThink of poems like Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gentle into that good ni...2025-06-2302 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 68 - The Daily Aftershock - Become your bedHello everyone,I’ve got a chesty cough, or potentially a chest infection, and also dealing with the post-event fatigue that comes after I do things publicly these days.Events take such a toll on me. Not just the preparation, bearing my innards on stage, but also the relief when it goes well. But then there’s the travel and the sheer number of people I’m just not used to these days.Today, while I’m resting, I want you to write a poem from that space too.What’s outside yo...2025-06-2200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 67 - The Daily Aftershock - This is not a poemThere’s a great history of poets writing poems that declare they’re not poems. From Joyce Carol Oates’ THIS IS NOT A POEM published by the New Yorker: in which the poet discovers
delicate white-parched bones
of a small creature
on a Great Lake shore
or the desiccated remains
of cruder roadkill
beside the rushing highway.To Brian Bilston:Today write a poem that declares itself not a poem but becomes one in the process. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...2025-06-2101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 66 - The Found PoemWrite a Found Poem using text messages, news headlines, or other words that are there already in real life all around you.Perhaps words in an anatomy textbook… Or a scrambled AI summary of a voicemail.Use the words you see around you as a scaffolding for your own poem. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-2000 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 65 - The Daily Aftershock - Write about the time you could finally cook for yourself againWhat got you out of bed in the night to finally care for yourself?I say this with somewhat of a cough and possible chest infection.Sitting in my hotel room in Ludlow,and thinking about how for so long I was bedbound with PTSD and my parents did everything for me.And I'm still not perfectly well, but my point is that food can be such a great metaphor in poetry.You know what?I'm secretly wanting to read for issue two a poem about someone...2025-06-1901 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 64 - The Daily Aftershock - The JourneyI’m travelling for our event in Ludlow tomorrow evening. Today I want you to think of a journey. Write it. Push it into fairytale. Where are you going? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-1800 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 63 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a poem that actively transforms from one image to the nextWrite a poem where every line transforms from the last, like water becoming steam, like wound becoming scar.Each line must carry over a word, an image, or a breath… but twist it, let it evolve.Let the last word of one line become the first spark of the next, not by repetition, but through transformation.Example:Let flame become hunger / hunger open the chest / chest echo with birdcall...Your turn:Choose your first image. Then follow the metamorphosis… Each turn should feel necessary, intimate, like a spell unfolding in r...2025-06-1701 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 62 - The Daily Aftershock - A Window to Hold ItVisual poetry uses a shape to speak. Today, that shape is a sash window: Two stacked rectangles. Four lines per pane. A form that holds stillness. A form that holds breath.When trauma makes the body want to jump or freeze, form can sometimes help us stay. Now, for some, the opposite is actually true. They find the freedom of no-form liberating at a time when perhaps freedom is most needed. But I offer this simply as an alternative.Prompt:So - write a visual poem in the shape of a sash window...2025-06-1601 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 61 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a poem with a hinge in itWrite a poem that turns in the middle.Line 6 is the hinge. Everything before it leans one way; everything after swings the other.Use repetition, contradiction, or an actual word hinge (e.g. “but,” “still,” “then”).Often we use the end of a line to do this, too. It’s a definite choice. A moment of pause. A moment to catch the reader’s assumptions of what might come next. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...2025-06-1500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 60 - The Daily Aftershock - Write in the Language of XThe Language of XWhat if grief had a dialect? Or joy a grammar?Choose an abstract or emotional concept, grief, lust, silence, survival, and imagine it has its own language.Write a poem in the “language of X.” Let syntax, rhythm, and metaphor reflect what that feeling knows. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-1400 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 59 - The Daily Aftershock - P.S...Today I want you to write a post-script to another poem of yours, or to a person who you won’t name. What wasn’t said? What was left out of the email? What never made it into the goodbye?Sometimes, survival isn’t a declaration. It’s an afterthought that grows louder with time.Let it be your footnote to the past. Your quiet rebellion. Your breath after the door closed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit af...2025-06-1300 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 58 - The Daily Aftershock - Erase your poems (to build new ones) - 'Different Versions of the Same Thing' by Max WallisToday I want you to take a poem you’ve already written, and redact, blackout or erase sections so that you create a new one. Try and create a shadow poem, that shows another meaning that’s still linked to the one before it. If you’re reading this on the website you can read two versions of the same poem below by me. They’re called Different Versions of the Same Thing and were published in the Courtauldian and the Ledbury Poetry Festival anthology many years ago.Thanks for reading (and listening) and I hope you enjoy th...2025-06-1202 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 57 – The Daily Aftershock – Write the last line of the book you haven’t written yet.If you could write the final sentence in a book, what would you say? I think we’ve all had this idea floating in our heads… What’s the final sentence that leaves a trace? Build outward from that imagined closure. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-1100 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 56 – The Daily Aftershock – Translate a flashback into a recipe.Use the language of food, preparation, and method to re-enter a pivotal moment. Let metaphor take over. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-1000 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Our Mission at The Aftershock ReviewOur Mission at The Aftershock ReviewWhy not publish every poem? Why hold trauma writing to such high standards? Here’s why.The Aftershock Review exists to champion the most urgent, skilful, and courageous writing being made in the wake of trauma, not as therapy, but as literature.We are proud to be funded by Arts Council England, supported by Crowdfunders, private donors, and a growing community of readers. With that backing comes responsibility: to uphold the highest standards of editorial integrity and artistic quality. Readers buy this magazine expecting to be challenged, mo...2025-06-0902 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 55 – The Daily Aftershock – Spell out your name using only memories.Each letter becomes a portal. Use initials, nicknames, chosen names… what does your name remember? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0900 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)September 11 by Joseph FasanoSeptember 11by Joseph Fasano They woke not knowing.
They kissed their children goodbye
in the morning dark, left a note
under the roses on the table.
(I’m sorry. We’ll talk about it later.)
Say it: They did not know
they would hold hands with strangers
and have to choose nothing over fire.
They did not know they would have
no other winters.
Listen. History
is human hands, a strand of hair
still stuck in someone’s buttons,
and absence makes a life
undone with hungers:
When my friend heard her father
was am...2025-06-0801 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 54 – The Daily Aftershock – Begin with the word despite.Let resistance and contradiction shape the logic of the piece. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0800 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 53 – The Daily Aftershock – Write an apology from something non-human.Let the bent spoon, the weather, the camera, the car, or the hospital bed say sorry. What would it mean? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0700 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 52 – The Daily Aftershock – Give your ghosts somewhere to live.Today write a list poem or prose poem about who or what haunts you. Make them a cast of characters. Where do they live? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0600 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)How Our Love Ends by Joseph FasanoA Note from the Editor, Max WallisIn How Our Love Ends, Joseph Fasano brings his characteristically cinematic lyricism to bear on the quiet catastrophe of parting. Here, love’s dissolution is neither rupture nor drama, but a final, tender surrender. A red dress. A blue suit. A single silent touch in the kitchen. Fasano sketches the end of a shared life not through argument or betrayal but through ceremony and near-mythic ache. The poem’s final image, “the deep-grooved gloves of falconers / that have learned the infinite difference / between giving up and letting something go”—encapsulates not just t...2025-06-0601 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 51 – The Daily Aftershock – Write the lie that saved you.Explore the comfort of necessary illusions… something you told yourself to survive, even if it wasn’t true.Read more below: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Pride 2025 - Wide Awake by Dale BootonThis Pride we’re spotlighting some of the queer poets from The Aftershock Review: Issue One. We’re starting with Dale Booton (@dale.booton).Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.“I chew the night’s garnish/squelch questions like lemon around my teeth/until the bitterness seeps into split gums”This is what aftermath looks like when you keep going. When the city frays. When love and pain blur into one another and you’re left awake with the wreckage.“love/pain I have been unable/to tell the...2025-06-0500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 50 - The Daily Aftershock - Write the one rule you broke, and what it gave youDear Daily Aftershock readers and podcast listeners, the next week of prompts will be short ones as I deal with other Aftershock work and stuff in my personal life.Today I want you to write a poem based on a rule you broke, and what it gave you.This could be literal, like breaking Lockdown in search of friends or family or company.Or it could be emotional: letting someone new love you, when you thought all was lost.Forget the morality involved in these things and instead find the poem...2025-06-0400 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 49 - Write a Self CentoIt’s Dr. Anna Percy here with Day 49 of the Daily Aftershock and a brand new prompt for you.You may have heard of the form cento in poetry. Traditionally, you borrow a line from a different poet for each line. But today, I’d like you to make a self cento, a cento made entirely from your own words.Use your own poetry, notebooks, text messages, Facebook statuses, Instagram captions, even a bit of a shopping list. The more unexpected and creative the source material, the more interesting the result.2025-06-0301 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 48 - Ask yourself questions you don't want to answerToday consider this poem by Linda Gregg:NEW YORK ADDRESSThe sun had just gone outand I was walking three miles to get home.I wanted to die.I couldn’t think of words and I had no futureand I was coming down hard on everything.My walk was terrible.I didn’t seem to have a heart at alland my whole past seemed filled up.So I started answering all the questionsregardless of consequence:Yes I hate dark. No I love light. Yes I won’t speak.No I will write. Yes I will...2025-06-0201 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 47 - Write a psalm to the bodyThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today, I want you to write a psalm to your body.Not a perfect body. Not a past body. The body you’re in today.This isn’t about gratitude, unless it is.It doesn’t have to be healing. Or loving. Or soft.It just has to be yours. Write like your body is listening… from the arch of your foot to the molar you crac...2025-06-0101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 46 - Write an ekphrastic poem from a song (Dr Anna Percy)The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.It’s Dr Anna Percy here with your prompt for Day 46 of the Daily Aftershock. You may have heard of an ekphrastic poem, a poem written in response to a work of art. The most famous example is John Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn. But ekphrasis isn’t limited to visual art, it can respond to any art form. Today, I encourage you to free write to a s...2025-05-3101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 45 - Write from when your personal gravity upturnsToday I want you to lean into surrealism.Write the moment the laws of your personal gravity shift, even slightly. What tilts? What floats up or out of reach? What pulls you back?Does your kettle float to the ceiling mid-boil?Do memories begin drifting up like balloons you forgot to tie down?Does your body fall sideways through the hallway mirror?Does your name slide off your chest and land with a clink on the tiles? This is a public episode. If you'd...2025-05-3000 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 44 - Write about the part of your body that remembers the most.Write about the part of your body that remembers the most.Is it your shoulders, always bracing? Your stomach, tightening before bad news? Your hands, still remembering someone else’s?Zoom in. Let this body part speak. What textures does it crave or fear? What does it hold, hide, rehearse? How has it changed over time?Don’t describe the body in general. Choose one specific part and stay with it. Let it narrate a memory, even if you don’t fully understand it yet.Your body remembers things your mind forget...2025-05-2900 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 43 – A Disappeared Object, with Dr Anna PercyDaily Aftershock #43 – A Disappeared Objectwith Dr Anna PercyIt’s Dr Anna Percy and I’m here with another prompt.I’d like you to think about an item, a product, or a piece of equipment that you used to use all the time, or that you saw someone else use all the time, but that no longer exists, or you can’t get it where you live.It might be something like what I was thinking about: the brand Spectacular nail polishes I used to have on my shelf as a young gi...2025-05-2801 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 42 - Write about an object you can’t throw away.Write about an object you can’t throw away. Maybe it’s useless now. Maybe it’s chipped, faded, hidden in a drawer. But it remains. A breadcrumb from a past version of you. A witness.Describe it in full: texture, smell, temperature, where you keep it, what it refuses to let go of. Don’t name the emotion. Let the object carry it.Examples:The cinema ticket folded four times in the back of a notebook.The hospital bracelet tucked behind a mirror.The hoodie you only wea...2025-05-2701 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 41 - Write something so specific it could only be yours, then see if someone else sees themselves in it.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.That’s one of the quiet, enduring magics of writing. The more precise the detail, the more it hums with life. And the more it hums, the more it echoes.Not: a cup of tea on a grey morning.But: the chipped Manchester United mug your old friend left behind, the one you still use because it fits your hand exactly, and because you haven’t quite brought yourself to t...2025-05-2601 min
William Wallis For AmericaMax Greiner - Miracles, Politics, And DestinyMax Greiner is well known to many for the experiences he has had with miracles. His art is known, loved, and owned by many. His destiny can be seen in the timeline of his life. And his faith and life experiences has often tangled with the politics of today.2025-05-241h 43
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 39 - Make a collage out of phrases you've overheard this week.Thank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today I want you to write a poem that’s made up from fragments of conversations. Use dialogue between voices in the poem. Let their dialogue show not tell. Then end the poem with a twist - let the interior mind of the narrator of the poem reveal something unsaid in the...2025-05-2400 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 38 – Free Association / FreefallThank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.After yesterday’s stillness, today I want you to freewrite.Let language slip the leash. Let the mind spiral or stall or dissolve. Follow the strangeness. Let syntax fracture. Let one word lead to the next like stepping stones you haven’t tested for weight. Let memory interrupt. Let dissociation name itself. What colours show up? What textures? What breaks the pattern?Write fast. Write without looking back.This is not about control. This is about breath. Begin...2025-05-2300 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 37 - StillnessIf you’ve been meaning to order The Aftershock Review, now’s the moment.I’ll be doing one final post run tomorrow, but after that, I won’t be able to ship any for a week. So if you want your copy soon, grab it today:Thank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.Today I want to talk about stillness. And actually, today’s writing prompt isn’t really a writing prompt. What I want you to do is go about your day. Go a...2025-05-2200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 36 - Write your lexicon!What’s your lexicon? What’s your language? What’s your personal dictionary of survival?We all carry secret vocabularies, words that mean more to us than they do to others. Maybe tide means relapse. Maybe bees means danger. Maybe red jumper means the day someone you loved died.Today’s prompt is to write a personal lexicon poem. You can structure it as a list, a prose block, or a series of definitions. You can write it alphabetically. You can be raw, defiant, strange, surreal, tender, coded. You could even write an abecedar...2025-05-2102 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)For Those Who Wake in Fear by Joseph FasanoEditorial Note by Max WallisFor Those Who Wake in Fear doesn’t console, it steadies the reader. This is a poem for anyone who’s made it back from the dark. Joseph Fasano names the unspeakable with a featherlight touch: “You have felt it slip your heart / like a trembling wren.” That image alone could undo you. But the poem doesn’t stop there. It exhales. It reminds us that if we’ve “carried what we had to,” through the madness and silence and rupture, then we are already whole, already singing. This poem understands that survival isn’t t...2025-05-2101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 35 - The Daily Aftershock - Joy uncoiledWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Sometimes in recovery, there’s a moment of joy that doesn’t make...2025-05-2000 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 34 - Sunrises and SunsetsWhat Rises in You
by Max Wallis
for the days you don’t
What rises in you,
my body?
Outside the window,
May’s sun lifts again.
But you do not.
Breath returns
only when it breaks:
a gasp in jailed lungs,
a throat packed with quiet.
The clatter of builders,
the hollow tick
of a world that doesn’t wait.
Everything has fallen, again.
But less than yesterday.
So stay. Name this hour.
Slack light, before consequence.
But this time: there are none.
The sky still performs
its silent rites
rising, falling,
rising as if it could go on
wit...2025-05-1902 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 29 - Fluorescent Grief and Neon LightsWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Write a poem or scene that begins in...2025-05-1402 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 28 - Poem as PatchworkWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Poem as Patchwork: Take 2-3 li...2025-05-1300 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)The Good News by Joseph FasanoThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Editorial Note by Max WallisJoseph Fasano is a poet of rare emotional clarity, each line carrying both weight and light. The Good News is a masterclass in quiet resurrection. With the gentlest touch, Fasano reorients suffering not as failure, but as evidence of deep, persistent love. His invocation of Lazarus is not religious dogma, but an urgent metaphor for the reader: to stand, to continue, even...2025-05-1301 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)The 'S' Word by Mark Antony OwenEditorial Note by Max WallisThere are poems that circle a subject, and poems that walk straight into it. The ‘S’ word is a record of that moment, when someone says it out loud. Suicide. Not metaphor, not euphemism. And the shift it causes in the room, in the relationship, in the world. Mark Antony Owen captures the jolt of intimacy redefined: “I felt you as if new.” This poem doesn’t explain. It doesn’t resolve. It lets the weight of what was said linger in the air between two people. Some truths can’t be undone. O...2025-05-1200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 27 - What the Fungi KnowWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.Beneath every forest is a hidden network. Mycelium which are connecting trees, transferring nutrients, passing signals, even warning of danger. A secret lifeline pulsing underground.Today, write about your beneath.What ne...2025-05-1200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 26 - Using embodiment in your poetry will change everythingWelcome to day 26 of the Daily Aftershock. Today I want you to know that embodiment can elevate your poetry beyond belief. What I mean by that, is the body is a language in itself and it remembers before the mind does. You can think of the body's betrayals and loyalties as powerful poetic ground. Did your hands stay still when you wanted to move them? Did your mouth open when it should have stayed shut? Sometimes the body is the metaphor. But sometimes metaphor dilutes what's raw. Ask yourself...2025-05-1101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 25 - (FREE POST) Brian Elizabeth - AKA Write a poem after a funny conversationWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.Me and Rhian Elizabeth had a funny chat on Instagram the other day about how when she was young she wore a t-shirt with her name on it. I suggested she make one for me. Th...2025-05-1002 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 21 - Almost by Max Wallis - Write a ritual for remembranceWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today I want you to write a poem that is...2025-05-0601 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 20 - Write about recovery through another objectWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Suggestions:* A smashed phone screen still lighting up...2025-05-0500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 19 - Write about the endWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Think about endings. What do you they mean? What do...2025-05-0402 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 18 - Write your birthWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Here’s a poem by me: 2025-05-0203 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 17 - The Door You Didn’t TakeWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What if one small moment, missing a train, answering a...2025-05-0200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)A suicide note by Mark Antony OwenThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Editorial Note by the EditorSome poems arrive with a hush around them. Others, like this one, carry a quiet weight that reverberates long after reading.Mark Antony Owen’s A suicide note is not metaphor. It was written with the real intent to be found. A document of care left in the imagined aftermath of absence. It’s been years now—but the poem remains, not as evi...2025-05-0101 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 16 - Where is the tiredness?Welcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Where is the tiredness today?In your knuckles? In your coccyx? In...2025-05-0100 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)The Immovable Stance by Helen IvoryBuy the book here: https://www.aftershockreview.com/product-page/issue-1-the-aftershock-reviewListen to our Daily Aftershock Podcast here: https://aftershockpoetry.substack.com/s/the-daily-aftershock-writing-promptA Note from the Editor:Here, we see how memory lands like a backfist. The Immovable Stance offers no neat redemption arc, only the weight of a father's words and the off-kilter balance of inherited harm. Shotokan Karate’s fudo-dachi becomes more than a posture here: it’s the grim theatre of masculinity, of who gets to stay rooted and who is scattered. But it’s also about patriarchal unrave...2025-04-3001 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)The Snow Globe by Helen IvoryThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support the magazine, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A Note from the Editor:Helen Ivory’s third poem in our inaugural issue Snow Globe holds a different kind of cold. Not the sharpness of winter, but the slow, creeping frost of neglect—the way intimacy can harden over time into something you don’t recognise. You think you’re surviving it, lighting fairy lights inside a dead hearth, sipping Cristal out of tulip glasses, waiting for warmth to retur...2025-04-2901 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)That Friday Afternoon by Helen IvoryThe Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A Note from the Editor, exclusive to Substack:Helen Ivory’s second poem in Issue One of The Aftershock Review (£12.99) made me somersault at my desk. That Friday Afternoon accomplishes something extraordinary. It lingers in the way trauma does — how certain memories don’t survive as stories, but as textures worn into the walls and floors of a life lived in extremis.This poem refuses to shout. It lets...2025-04-2801 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 13 - Write about your aftershockWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.On Saturday we sold over £700 of magazines at the Poe...2025-04-2701 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 12 - Write about the failure of architecture to hold you.Welcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Write about the room that didn’t protect you.The...2025-04-2700 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 11 - Describe what the buildings do when nobody is watching.Welcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Do they breathe? Do they grieve? Do th...2025-04-2600 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Why I Called Him Bluebeard by Helen IvoryA note from the Editor:When I first read this poem, I sat very still. I thought of all the times we’ve needed myth to say what felt unsayable. How story can be a mask, but also a mirror. Helen Ivory’s Why I Called Him Bluebeard doesn’t flinch. It moves through fear, memory, and language with astonishing clarity. It just had to open our inaugural issue. Here, poetry becomes a spell, an unmaking, and a reckoning. — Max WallisWhy I Called Him Bluebeardby Helen Ivory | poet | artist Bec...2025-04-2500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 10 - Write a love letter to the version of you that survived a cityWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Not the glossy city, not the postcards. Wr...2025-04-2500 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Section I - Opening Tremors / Naming the Damage - (Meet the contributors!)Opening Tremors / Naming the DamageWe begin where it begins: with rupture. The poems in this first section speak from the brink, in the language of impact, aftermath, and the moment something breaks. This is where the damage is named. Not to retraumatise, but to mark its outline, to say this happened. These poems are raw-boned, necessary, unflinching. They give shape to the unspeakable, refusing the silence that so often follows trauma. This is the first tremor, the shock before the aftershock. The moment the world tilts, and you know nothing will ever be the same again.2025-04-2402 min
Girls Next DoorHow to Befriend Your Neighbour (Without Being Weird): The Girls Next Door | With Wallis Day and Francesca AllenIn this debut episode of the Girls Next Door podcast, your new favourite podcast hosts Wallis Day and Francesca Allen take listeners on a lighthearted trip down memory lane, tracing the very stylish, slightly chaotic beginning of their friendship—which just so happened to bloom from the magic of being literal next-door neighbours. It all began with a classic moving-day scenario: Wallis, sweating it out with a heavy box, and Francesca, breezing by with her dog Max, ready to save the day…The episode kicks off with Wallis and Francesca sharing the details of that first fateful encounter—a sunny...2025-04-2430 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 8 - Childhood MythsWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today I want you to think of a...2025-04-2300 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 7 - Write with every day of the weekWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Start each line or sentence with a day, and let that da...2025-04-2200 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)DAY 5 — WRITE THE RETURNWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Write the moment after.The breath that co...2025-04-2000 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 4 - Write from the in-between This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-1901 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 3 – Write as though you're leaving something behind, include an invented wordWelcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Write like departure. Like it’s already too...2025-04-1801 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Day 2 – Describe grief as a weather system.Welcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules—only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today’s prompt asks you to describe grief as a weather system...2025-04-1700 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Welcome to the Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Welcome, writers! This space is for the tremors. For what comes after. For those of us who write from the margins, the wreckage and the edge of reinvention.Every day, you’ll receive a writing prompt from The Aftershock Review—a spark drawn from survival, grief, rage, resilience, and everything we build after breaking. You don’t have to be a poet. You don’t have to be healed. You just have to begin.Some prompts are gentle. Some are furious. All are designed to shake something loose.Save them. Skip them. Us...2025-04-1501 min
THE HOLLYWOOD PODCASTEp. 257 - Tom Basden, Tim Key & James Griffiths "The Ballad of Wallis Island"Director James Griffiths and writers & stars Tom Basden & Tim Key are out with the new film THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND playing now in theaters. The film is about eccentric lottery winner Charles (played by Tim) who dreams of getting his favorite musicians back together (played by Tom and Carey Mulligan). The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates/former lovers agree to play a private show at Charles’s home on Wallis Island but in doing so, old tensions between the two resurface.The Ballad of Wallis Island is now Playing in Select Theaters, Everywhere April 18.2025-04-0112 min
Extra Ordinary with James Wallis#59 - Max Thomas - Unlocking the Secrets to Successful Gay DatingLove, Rejection & Sex - A Conversation with an LGBT Dating Guru.
In this episode of Extra Ordinary, we delve into the complex world of LGBT relationships.
Max Thomas, author of 'Boys Who Like Boys', shares insights on open relationships, confronting gay shame, the challenges of dating, and the intricacies of love and intimacy within the LGBTQ+ community.
Join us as we explore the experiences, struggles, and triumphs that define the quest for love and connection in the diverse spectrum of LGBT relationships.
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HR Coffee Time108 | HR leadership: How to create a simple but powerful one-page strategy, with Dr Max MckeownStrategy is a topic we’ve explored before on HR Coffee Time (and we’ll look at again in the future) because it’s an important aspect of HR leadership. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist, or you feel uncomfortable and worried when it comes to strategy, this episode is here to help you build your skills and confidence. Strategy expert and author of the award-winning book, “The Strategy Book: How to think and act strategically to deliver outstanding results”, Dr Max Mckeown shares: What strategy is & what it isn’t How you’re already a strategist (even if...2023-10-2740 min
Business for Builders PodcastEpisode #37 - MASSIVE CHANGE REQUIRES MASSIVE ACTION! With Leigh WallisSend us a textReady to take your business AND lifestyle to the next level? In this week's podcast, we go to Australia! International Managing Director, Leigh Wallis, joins us via zoom to chat about the power of the Smith & Sons team and brand.We know that builders don't get the recognition they deserve for the hard work they do. We understand that you want more time, more money, more lifestyle. This a game-changer for those looking to get out of the rut and bu...2021-07-0937 min
The Separation is in the PreparationEpisode 16: Max Bock-AronsonFor Episode 16 of “The Separation is in the Preparation” podcast I am joined by Max Bock-Aronson. Max is the CEO and Co-Founder of Breathe99, a public benefit corporation best known for its B2 Mask which filters out 99% of potential respiratory contaminants. Max shares his inspiration for the mask and how Covid-19 revitalized and changed the project. We also discuss the creative process Max employs when designing products, as well as his advice for anyone starting and running their own company. This was a really cool episode to record, as it challenged the way I look at and think about the...2021-03-2652 min
EnpsychedeliaEP127 - Disability Special - For MaxThis episode was produced as part of 3CR's Day of Disability discussions.The episode is dedicated to one of my (Nick Wallis)'s best friends Max Luca-Reddaway. When I first started doing the show at 3CR, he was still around but in hospital most of the time. I never expected him to be gone, but suspect deep down I knew what was happening and didn't want to acknwoledge it. I wanted to get him to listen to my show. We were like brothers to eachother and had an intimate, caring relationship.At the start of this episode, I chat with...2017-12-0300 min