Deborah Finding
On average, a woman tries to leave her abusive partner 14 times before she finally leaves for good / A fortnight has 14 days / The Beatles released their first two albums in 1963, and both had 14 tracks / There are 14 pounds in a stone. The longer you carry something, the heavier it gets. This isn’t true, it stays the same, you get tired / Tetradecaphobia is the fear of the number 14 / Sherlock Holmes’ long-suffering landlady, Mrs Hudson, lives at 14 Baker Street / In Football Association rules, Law 14 explains the Penalty Kick / In Cantonese, the word for 14 sounds like will certainly die and this is considered unlucky, even though surely that is true of everything / In 1989, a young man walked into Montreal Polytechnic with a semi-automatic rifle and killed 14 women, mainly engineering students. His note said, I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker / Radicalisation has 14 letters / In those Cantonese speaking areas, many buildings do not have a 14th floor, or rather they do not call it the 14th floor, although not acknowledging something exists is not the same as it not existing / The 14 times a woman tries to leave an abusive partner takes on average seven years. A biannual attempt / A male Swedish pole vaulter set 14 world records in under seven years / There are 14 bones in the human face.
Deborah Finding’s poems have been published in Magma, Propel, fourteen poems, berlin lit, and The Little Review. Deborah’s debut poetry collection ‘My Marxist Valentine’ is just out, and she also has two pamphlets, ‘Vigils for Dead and Dying Girls’ and ‘Amortisation’. She was the inaugural poet-in-residence at the Soho Poly.
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