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Review on Nine to Noon

5/28/2018

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Harry Ricketts reviewed Are Friends Electric? on National Radio today, describing the collection as 'uncanny poems'.
Listen here.

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Harry is launching his own collection this week, it's called Winter Eyes and you can find it here.

There is also a stunning poem of his on The Spinoff, which blew me away, called 'Grief Limericks'. Read it here.
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Using/abusing fembots

5/19/2018

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Image from Weta workshop, model from 'The Ghost in the Machine'.
This essay originally appeared in Overland magazine issue 225, summer 2016.

​When I was seven, a classmate was given a walking, talking doll by her father. With its arms outstretched like a zombie, it walked stiff-legged towards you, droning ‘Mama’ repeatedly.

I was equally curious and repelled. My friend wouldn’t let me open it up to see how it worked. I knew the doll was not alive, but to me it transgressed the boundaries of how dolls should behave. I imagined her following me through an empty house calling ‘Mama … Mama’ – this thing that seemed to long to be held, but was too unyielding for anyone to reciprocate.

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