James Kearns is a poet based in Cape Town and Birmingham. His pamphlets After Words (2022) and Burn Your Passport (2025) have featured in Ghost City Press’s Summer Series and his debut collection On the Subject of Fallen Things was published by Bad Betty Press in 2023. His forthcoming experimental poetry project A Wee Torchlight Bobbing Up and Down is due late in 2025.
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