Embƒrking forever
Minecraft as
poetic practice
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Acknowledgements
The second-person blue poetic passages in this piece are indebted to Gregory Kan’s Under Glass (Auckland University Press, 2019) and Julian Gough's End Poem, particularly their tonal qualities and approach to dialogue, landscape, and narrative.
THANK YOU to Rory Green for their editor and producer role in this piece - and for their ongoing friendship, conversation, encouragement and general genius.
And thank you to everyone who has ever played Minecraft with me.
