About my work (and a bit more about me)

The work that I am posting here is by and large abstract free verse, but a lot of it has been created in tetrameter or octosyllabic line.

I'll be posting my work up frequently, along with some of my thoughts and will try to make the posts with my work in chronological order starting with oldest going all the way through to most recent.

I am currently based in North London and am from just outside of London originally. I am a postgraduate literature student at UCL, specializing in Russian Literature (hence also the pseudonym). I was also at UCL for my undergrad, having studied French and Spanish.

My literary background is extensive and varied. My literary interests and intellectual influences are mostly from my favourite areas in literature (some of which I have formally studied to BA level and others at MA level and others just because)

Medieval English literature (Middle English authors like Chaucer and Malory), Medieval French literature, Renaissance French literature, Golden Age Spanish literature, Golden Age Spanish Theatre, The Nineteenth Century as a whole in France, Spain and Russian, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Russian short stories, my old English teacher at school's work and Philip Larkin.


Ok, so quite a wide spread of things that I enjoy, but as you will no doubt notice I've not mentioned many 'modern' works. That is because my least favourite works are 20th century and 21st century. I can't stand pop-lit and the modern style. I much prefer the writers who were thinkers, readers and writers who agonized over their words and genuinely loved words and literature.

These poets, playwrights and authors are my inspiration and it is their passion and capacity for thought and proper manipulation of language which I hope to one day capture.


I will try where I can to put dates of completion on my work, but sadly most of it is untitled and not dated. The reason for not putting a date on most of my writing is laziness and thoughtlessness. However, not titling my work is deliberate.