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Maddy kilsby-mcMurray

The Trash Fire Poet

POET | WRITER | SPEAKER

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About the trash fire poet

Maddy Kilsby-McMurray is a non-binary poet & writer based in Southend-On-Sea, UK. Writing is their therapy, a way to process a world that is too harsh and too fast for their queer, disabled heart. They write trash fire poetry: written in haste, often destined to be burnt.

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