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"DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] is a surreal t�te-b�che collection on trauma and mental health The leading voice in tommy wyatt's DITCHLAPSE expresses a relatable sense of subservience to uncertainty. Each piece in the collection is a loop in itself, asking its audience to ""unplug the TV ... before it consumes us whole."" In these pieces, wyatt emphasizes what it means to be consumed. How a shadow can be so devastating. How a shadow can be the ""parasocial love in the netherhours."" In a collection so visceral, wyatt actualizes desire in its most digital form, describing a person being the self in self-destruction; the hidden figure in a figureless moment. -Aldrin Badiola, editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland if you believe as i do that we make art to make sense of our existence, then tommy wyatt's is asking, what happened and why? throughout his career wyatt has played with form, voice, and perspective to keep coming back to the moments in his life that shaped him, each effort an attempt to find answers this time. in [REALLY AFRAID] wyatt builds on the breadth of his offerings to tighten the circle, get closer, and show us something new.-wK blair, kith books"

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tommy wyatt's writing ensures you get winded and wounded in this vivid recollection surrounding modern technology, identity, tragedy, and loss. right from the beginning, tommy's words guide you through their body and their personal tragedies, taken apart and meticulously inspected through the form of modern social media. DITCHLAPSE is the true amalgamation of the juxtaposition of tommy's selves: on media and in life. tommy's words ensure a crisis in DITCHLAPSE's readers, while furthering their own understanding of tommy, both as a poet and as a person. there is no limit to the level of understanding, tragedy, and identity crises that DITCHLAPSE induces upon its readers. DITCHLAPSE itself is best described as raw and visceral, and tommy does an absolutely amazing job conveying their emotions to their readers. -arushi (aera) rege DITCHLAPSE, in its pursuit of exploring the liminality of the digital world and the experiences of mental health issues, creates a liminal space in itself. A world in which infomercials play mid-poem, selling you a miracle cure, as you listen to your inner monologue replay some of wyatt's experiences as if they were your own. The poems trap you like you're doom scrolling late at night, forcing you to listen with expert craft of form and metre, like they're exploiting the algorithm of your brain. DITCHLAPSE is a tour de force of glitches, stutters, and pixel projections, that make you feel seen in your darkest moments, lit up by neon. It aches with the burden of internet culture-the good, the bad, and the stigmatised. -Ozzy Welch, author of Toothache tommy wyatt's words blow you away in this gently violent recollection surrounding their personal struggles with dissociation. right from the first page, their words hold your hand through what it means to live as tommy-a vivid retrospection of memories that surround you with tommy's experiences juggling personal identity, trauma, and PTSD. tommy's words ensure a thought-provoking, identity-crisis-inducing journey throughout [REALLY AFRAID]; wrapped in the bounds of words, there is no limit to the profound emotional impact tommy inflicts upon their readers. -arushi (aera) rege [REALLY AFRAID] is a detail-rich, genre-defying collection. wyatt's innovation of what poetry can look like from one page to the next offers an engaging experience for the reader the whole way through. -Audrey T. Carroll, author of The Gaia Hypothesis and In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be

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tommy wyatt (he/they) lives with his boyfriend and their fiendishly goofy cats. he's the author of NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL HORROR!; So, Who's Courage?; TASEREDGED (watch out!); Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen; moviemotion; and others.

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