This year, I’m writing a poetry book about masculinity.

Not a celebration, and not a condemnation—just an honest excavation.

A reckoning with what it means to be a man: the tenderness, the violence, the pressure, the silence.

The fathers we become, the boys we were, and the things we never say.

This collection is dedicated to my dad—who is currently battling cancer—and to every man fighting this same fight.

In his honour, I’m using this book to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.