Editorial Note by Max Wallis

In Body in Trouble, JP Seabright builds a poem from fragments, each line a pressure point. The language glitches, stops short, doubles back: “sinful & skinful,” “pseudolirium,” “negative equity.” Bureaucracy and medicine creep in- “pharmaceutical intervention,” “declaring my deadnames” - until the body is measured like a balance sheet, written down to loss. The repeated question, “who do you talk to,” hammers at the silence around crisis, the way systems isolate even as they claim to treat. What remains is a charged inventory of survival: broken syntax refusing order, a voice splintering but still speaking.

About the Author:

JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have six solo pamphlets published and four collaborations, encompassing poetry, prose and experimental work. More info at https://jpseabright.com via Twitter/X @errormessage and @jpseabright everywhere else.

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