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Luc Grey

Luc Grey is a queer, mixed-race writer. His primary interest is in experimental poetry, playing with form and theme to further the work of the written word. He also writes fiction across various mediums. As an editor, Luc primarily focuses on informative articles and website copy.An alumnus of Royal Holloway, Luc graduated with a first in BA English and Creative Writing and the Third Year award for excellent work in Creative Writing. During his time at university, he developed a number of creative journals and zines to raise money for charity.

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The Poetry Machine is a collection of interactive poetry designed to interrogate ideas of authorial intent and ask how what the reader brings to a poem can change its meaning.It can be played for free on itch.io.

• The Poetry Machine

The Starcatcher and the King is a fairy tale that focuses on the queering of the traditional tellings and the nature of fae pacts. Originally written in 2019, it was updated and re-released as one section of Transformations, a zine released to raise money for Black Lives in June 2020.Illustrations for the 2020 rerelease were created by Cassander Claude (@quailhat).

• The Starcatcher

Windows is a collection of poetry written from 2017 to 2020, examining the internal and external lives of strangers. The collection considers what it must be like to sit in someone else's head for the short intimacy of a packed train ride, and asks what it is to see yourself in someone else.

• Windows

Transformations features poetry and prose written by Luc Grey, with art from Clay Cameron (@cclaycameron) and Cassander Claude (@quailhat). The two pieces featured are a short story -- The Starcatcher and the King -- and a poem -- Mob Mentality. Both pieces focus on the changes that characters undergo, and how these affect the perception of them in other people's eyes.This collection was sold in June 2020 to raise money for Black Lives charities, contributing to a final total of over £630.

• Transformations

Love Poem to a Fern is one of Luc Grey's forays into a more multimedia way of presenting poetry. Using music and visuals, the poem itself occupies more of the audience's senses and encourages them to consider what the three sources of information mean when presented as a whole work.

• Love Poem to a Fern

What Monster emphasises one of Luc Grey's favoured themes -- monstrousness as a metaphor for societal abnormality. The monster as loveable queerness is key to much of his work -- as it encompasses the ability love outside of the rigid societal structures we are placed in. This poem looks at many different shades of monstrous, and offers the reader the choice to love something that society tells us is unlovable.

• What Monster

in a snowstorm begins Luc Grey's exploration into gentle apocalypses. Whilst there is much to be said for a second in which the world ends, there is a second type of apocalypse -- those that don't have a definitive end-point. These and their 'post'-apocalypse eras are the breeding ground for poetry that explores how the world ends when it ends too slowly to notice, and how it begins again, just as slowly.

• in a snowstorm...

The Bard is a concept for a comedy-drama anthology series based in a fantasy world. The titular Bard travels from place to place, sharing stories and parables with a new listener each episode. Whilst lighthearted, the series does encourage the audience to examine the effect of stories, and the influence of the storyteller.

• The Bard

Yellow Green is a contribution to a microfiction zine created by @aetataureate. The poem was great practice in fitting to a strict brief of exactly 50 characters. By constraining the poetry to such a confined word count, it became a challenge to express an idea effectively, whilst neither forcing it to reach the word count nor having to cut it back from overrunning.

• The HTML Colors Zine

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