STILL WE WRIGGLE
IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS
Poems and artworks shaped by repetition, pressure, vulnerability and witness.
A book about what we notice, what we excuse, what we inherit, and what we continue to repeat. It asks you not to look away.
THIRST
About the Book
Across complicity, resistance, harm, denial, care and hope, the collection asks what we choose to see — and what we allow ourselves to ignore.
The subjects are not light ones: prejudice, cruelty, appetite, bureaucracy, climate, grief, silence and care. At times the voice is direct and clear-eyed; at times it is angry, wounded, satirical or tender. But the intention is not to dictate meaning. It is to ask the reader to pause, to question, and to look again.
Still We Wriggle looks at the systems we inherit, the systems we sustain, the harms we excuse, and the possibility that we might still choose to be different.
It does not tell you what to think.
It asks you not to look away.
IT ASKS YOU
NOT TO LOOK
AWAY
We did not
burn the books
we just
stopped reading.
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A generosity
of spirit
(and wine)
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A gun can
silence a crowd,
it cannot
cool an ocean
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Names into numbers.
The labelled — erased.
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Your suffering
is outside
our remit.
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Go back,
go back to what?
Outside toilets?
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Inside the Book
Poetry, artwork and visual fragments moving through complicity, resistance, harm, denial, care and hope.
Artworks in the Book
The artworks in Still We Wriggle are not illustrations.
They do not explain the poems, and the poems do not explain them.
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They share a field of concern: pressure, witness, damage, endurance, reflection and the possibility of change.
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Some works hold violence. Some hold grief.
Some hold absurdity. Some hold hope.
Together, they open another space for the reader to look, pause and decide what remains.
Nothing
Changes
If Nothing
Changes
Created alongside the paintings, Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes began the dialogue between word and image — a limited illustrated poetry collection shaped by reflection, discomfort, and the need to look.
A few copies remain: £12.50 + postage. Limited edition of 50.
Due for release on
THE MIDSUMMER SOLSTICE
21 June 2026
The first print proof is now in production.
Ordering details will follow once the final edition is approved.
PUBLISHED BY​
Kevin Tharme Studios
Available through Bookvault, with a limited number of direct copies also planned.