Every time I meet you feels like doom is a contemporary lyric collection exploring intimacy, obsession, and self-performance in a culture of constant visibility.
Across encounters mediated by art, sex, humor, and spectatorship, the speaker remains witness to her own complicity, staging longing as an ethical and aesthetic problem, rather than a story with a resolution.
These poems, hot with psychosexual tension and rendered with painterly detail, offer a darkly funny and surprisingly tender excavation of the contradictions, disappointments, and realities of modern life.
Poppy Cockburn is a writer living by the coast in Margate, UK. The author of five poetry chapbooks-such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and most recently Confetti (ex-cerpts)-her debut book-length collection, Naked Oyster, was published by If a Leaf Falls Press in 2025.
