I don’t have things to tell you is a collaborative poetry collection by Mau Baiocco and Maria Sledmere. Two poets writing from the edgelands of the internet during our asynchronous emergence from the Covid-19 lockdowns.

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Combining documentary with diaristic insight, Mau and Maria rehearse their nostalgia for the lived moment. The poets discuss their encounters with art and conversations with friends. They recall dreams, architecture and sicknesses of the body and mind. Moving through metaphysical enquiry, acid Romanticism, wishlists and the ephemera of everyday life, they write towards a theory of living in unbelievable times. These poems are documents of culture at precise, dated moments. Portraits of loneliness, self-sabotage, mirror-selves. They contain birthday wishes, celestial visions, alchemical descriptions of literature, dream reports, news items and psychogeographical tangents. 

These poems are channels of thought and energy between Leeds and Glasgow, and between digital and corporeal versions of oneself. They reflect a yearning to map the interior of a relationship, to write love into existence, and to construct a shareable future motivated by friendship.