Dorian Mackle Bayley

Sometimes writer, based in Aotearoa

Select Publications

Current works:

in my shadow afternoons, Full House Literary - SOON

severed breasts, takahē

hook up, transitive rag

serenity prayers for suicide prevention, Raw Lit

kaikōura (calling home), A Curious Moon #2


Under deadname:

until we are hollow, NZ Given Words

[Untitled], January Issue Red (fingers comma toes)

incomplete excerpts from my lockdown, Haumi ē! Hui ē! Taiki ē (NZ Poetry Society)

Bird, The perfect weight of blankets at night (NZ Poetry Society)

A city built on the forest's grave, After the Cyclone (NZ Poetry Society)

Lemon Squeezer Boneyard, Never Such Innocence

They Leave Behind the Wind, Poems4Peace 2014

Passing Time, Young Poets Network

About & Contact

Dorian Mackle Bayley (he/they/whatever) is a transmasc writer and tangata Tiriti based in Ōtepoti. He is in his final year of a BA in English and Anthropology. Recent work appears in takahē, transitive rag, and elsewhere. Older works can be found under the deadname "Pieta", published by the NZ Poetry Society and others. He is autistic and disabled, and, more importantly, a passionate sympathiser and apologist for Shakespeare's Richard III .

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