A vow made as part of a magic ritual conducted outside Huddersfield train station during a psychogeography conference compelled the author to write a new series of poems.
Ejector Seat is the resulting writing — hurtling from the white hot optimism of a faultily-remembered 1960s to a present day confined for months in a suburban house.
Dreams, memories and an epic online walk along every street in the UK called 'Boundary Road' provide the shifting ground for these words.
Roy Bayfield's previous publications include Desire Paths: Real Walks to Unreal Places (Triarchy Press 2016), Performance Cleaner (Triarchy Press 2019) and poetry assemblage Bypass Pilgrim (TransGenre 2011).
His poetry has appeared in STRIDE, Neon Highway, Star*Line and The Passionate Transitory, short fiction in BritPulp! and Chills and a chapter in Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography.
He lives in Ormskirk in the North West of England.
