Aea Varfis-van Warmelo

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My book Attention-Seeking Behaviour publishes in May 2026. Pre-order is available now in the UK and US.

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Intellectual Property
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024)

Intellectual Property is a series of long-form poems that propose the law of intellectual property as poetry’s dark twin. Moving through the Leibniz-Newton Calculus Controversy, the Son of Sam Law and gene patenting, the poems position the brutal logic of the law against the inner workings of a teenage boy and a young pregnant woman.

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Poems/Essays

Sand / A Glimpse Of / The White Review / National Poetry Library / Tolka / Art Review / Rialto / Visual Artists Ireland / Spam Zine / Wet Grain / From Glasgow to Saturn / The Open Arms / Goodbye Scarecrow

Prizes

Shortlisted for The White Review’s Poetry Prize / Shortlisted for the Glasgow Women’s Library Bold Types prize