Sy Brand
Bio
Sy is a queer non-binary poet and filmmaker living in Edinburgh, Scotland.
They write through the haze of cat-/child-induced sleep deprivation to try and make sense of gender, relationships, and autism.
You can find them on Twitter @TartanLlama.
Words
Chapbooks
- Cloud Picker, Thirty West Publishing, 2023
- on having needs, Trickhouse, 2022 Annual (micro-chapbook)
- Sugar, Lice, Screams from Paradise, Poetry Jam; February 2020 (micro-chapbook, self-published)
Journals
2024
- Water Carving, Parentheses Journal (upcoming)
2023
- Apocalypse on a Friday Night, Revolver
- archive live, Revolver
- Behind Paintings, WriteNowLit
- Bone, alongside, Revolver
- Glass Only, WriteNowLit
- Leaving, WriteNowLit
- My river runs just south of all beautiful things,, Ghost City Review
2022
- Beehive Ginger, Firewords, #15
- Blurred Photograph of my Day at the Beach, en*gendered
- Bombardier Bloodshed, en*gendered
- Btw, I'm a Vampire, Final Girl Bulletin Board
- Cinderella, en*gendered
- Hairy Legs, en*gendered
- It Was Morning, Then, The Lovers, #1
- Laser Eye Surgery, MORIA, #9
- Love Trunks, Black Moon Magazine, #6
- Millrace at Dark, Copihue Poetry, #1
- Misuse, Misery Tourism
- Satellite, Unblinking, Ligeia Magazine
- Stems, Boats Against the Current
- To Grow in All Directions, The Shore Poetry
- To Have Truly Found a Place, Indefinite Space
- Tower, My Beautiful Child, Ligeia Magazine
- Your Wrist is Full, Boats Against the Current
- You're So Fucking Valid, Trestle Ties, #5
2021
- It's a lovely day to be queer, the lickety~split
- Barber Shock, SPORAZINE
- Bauhaus Brain Funnel, >Visual Verse, Vol. 8, Chapter 4 (lead poet)
- Beehive Ceiling, yours, poetically, #2, spring beginnings
- Cloud Picker, GLITCHWORDS, #6
- cotton balls, Claw & Blossom, Solstice: SCREENS
- How can we shine in this place, Miniskirt Magazine, #2
- Late Walk in Late Morning, the lickety~split
- They put knives in our boots, Visual Verse, Vol. 8, Chapter 3
- Windswept, Dust, #7, Connection
2020
- Allergy Concerns, SPOONFEED
- And The Cliffs Drown, Dreich, Cinema
- August 4th: Night in a motel whose name burned in the heat, Perhappened, #3, Heatwave
- Banditti At Rest, The Ekphrastic Review
- Beard Katamari, Malefaction, Quaranzine (flash fiction)
- Core Movement, Clitbait
- Crossed Lines, Capsule Stories, Spring 2020
- Exorcist, Please, The Mantle Poetry, #11
- Explorers in the Dark, Crêpe & Penn
- Fans of History as an Abstract Concept, Clitbait
- Gravity is for People Who Don't Hold Hands, Mookychick
- How To Steal a Glance, ZARF Poetry
- I Am Not!, You Are Not Me
- It's Winter in Edinburgh, Capsule Stories, Spring 2020
- Late Spring, Dreich, Cinema
- Maneater By Man, Malefaction, Femme Fatale
- Memory Wipe, Clitbait
- Nightblind, Dreich, Cinema
- Now the Horses are All Gone, Perhappened, #1, Carnival
- Omni, Yes Poetry
- Pleased to Meet You, Night Music Journal
- Rain Cleaver, Capsule Stories, Spring 2020
- Red Poison Down the River, Dreich, Cinema
- So is this a date?, Dreich, Cinema
- Submission Guidelines for a Journal Which Doesn't Exist, But Should, KAIROS Literary Magazine, Volume 5 Issue 1
- The Darkening Whiles, Crêpe & Penn
- The Real Culture Wars, Pure Slush, The Tyrany of Bacon Anthology
- Them Fatale, Malefaction, Femme Fatale
- Times I've Gender-Confused People, Sad Girl Review
2019
- Black Moon, Popshot Quarterly, Issue 25
- Cash Cow, Detritus Online, Issue #3
- Corporate Love, Lies, Dreaming, #21 - These Pyramids
- Fire Exit, Visual Verse, Vol. 7, Chapter 01
- No Dream, deLuge Journal, 5.1
- Oil Change, Transcend, Transcend.PROTOTYPES
- Squawks and Punch, Detritus Online, Issue #3
- Supremacy will destroy us all, Visual Verse, Vol. 7, Chapter 02
- Trash Cup, Detritus Online, Issue #3
Spoken Word Features
- Kafe Kweer Featured Poet, February 2024
- Whisky & Beard Publishing x Sad Poet's Doorstep Club: Pride Month Special, June 2021
- Virtual Trans and Enby Pride, July 2020
- Niamh Me Alone podcast, Episode 8, Queer Poetry, June 2020
- Malefaction Online Launch Party, May 2020
- God is a Womxn, Refugee Women's Centre Fundraiser, January 2020
Images
Co-created with Maren Pan
- I Find You (2023)
- On Scorched Earth (2023)
- Dreamed Landscapes (2022)
- Light Oneiric (2022)
- A Moth Orchid Flies at Night (2022)
- Softly, the current may bend our bodies (2022)
Sounds
As Void River
Other Activities
- Editor of code::art.
- Co-editor of trashheap zine.