The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.


'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'


Books VI, VII, and VIII of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, possibly (probably?) the third millennium's best giant robot space opera yuri epic poem, come out on Saturday 12 August!

I will read these three books aloud live on Twitch starting at 20:30 GMT / UTC / Zulu. Once the live reading's done, I'll add the books to the file on itch (along with some minor tweaks and corrections to typos in earlier books).

If you haven't caught up, you can find the PDF of the poem so far on itch for free (for free!), and you can listen to the previous books read aloud here:

These recordings, like the coming reading, are rough-and-ready material, with mistakes, pauses, and the occasional off-hand remark left in; they're not an audiobook, or a statement of the 'right' way to read the poem! (Really it should be read by someone with a better voice than me…)


Image: Jehan de Grise, finished by 1344, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, folio 58r, detail, made available under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.


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