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Ethan Hammond: 29, Male

Bio: I am a poisons scientist (trainee grade) who works for the National Poisons Information Service (Newcastle). I also get roused out of bed in response to any major chemical/poison related incidents as I am the health emergency planning lead (I mean plonker) in the department.

My life pretty much revolves around my job and the wearing of a pager is not conducive to healthy sleep patterns. Also undertaking grad school whilst being a clinical worker has been quite interesting, but more often frantic to comprehend.

I aim to work in the international arena in the near future most possibly as a disaster-management/public-health specialist. My dream job would be the ICRC (Committee of the Red Cross) or the UN (World Health Organisation). I am one determined self reliant bastard so ill get there.

My writing tends to me metaphysical at best and a sort of pseudo-pondering at worst, but hey it’s all practice anyway.

See you when I see you!

Genres: Documentary writing, metaphysical and existensial poetry. Ethnography and social anthropology.

Main Website:: www.nyrdtc.nhs.uk/about_us/staff_structure/pois_med/pois_med.html

Publishing Credits: Editred and 64 Channels at present, but have not been active on submitting works for publication over the last year or so.

Awards: EditRed writer of the month (poetry)

Influences: My 2 older sisters (love them to bits), friends, parents (and the skint childhood they both had), books (most of my influences derive from biographies) and most importantly solo-traveling (finding out things by myself).

Favourite Books: Michael Ondattje (English Patient, Anil's Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion), Dante Aligheri (Dante's Inferno), Vikram Seth (2 Lives), Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace), The Chaucer's Tales, Antoine De Saint Exupery (Flight to Arras and the Little Prince), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffanys) Isabelle Allende(The House of Spirits), Mary Oliver (Wild Geese, Collections I and II), Alden Nolan (Bloodaxe Anthology), Colin Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road and The Lost Heart of Asia), Peter Hessler (River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze), Lawrence Durell (The Alexandra Quartet), Peter Abelard (The Letters of Abelard and Heloise), Herman Hesse (Narcissus and Goldmund, haven't read the others), Manuel Komroff (The Travels of Marco Polo), Michael Buckley (Travels in the Tibetian World), Desmond Morris (People Watching, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's study of the Human Animal), Jared Daimond (I have read his books until they shrivelled: Guns, Germs and Steelm The Fifth Chimpanzee and the Collapse of Societies), John Pilger (Hero, Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and The Hidden Agenda), Naomi Kline (No Logo) Barry Scwartz (The Paradox of Choice), John Simspson (A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life) Michael Palin (Himalaya and Sahara) and the list goes on for ages!

Writer, Prizefighter, Or Caffeine Inspired All Nighter?: Writer, Practitioner of poetry and a caffeine addict.

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Hi everyone! I think a few of you may already be friends of mine from my scribbles on EditRed. In all honesty I have been a member for about er...half a year now, but because of my previous comput... Read More »

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Rough thoughts of an overdose case (not really poetic)

The problem about science…

Is that it only tells you how often something

happens n…

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Posted by Ethan Hammond on July 5th, 2008 at 7:37pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Dreams of fishing in the workplace (unpublished but may send it off some time).

Time is said to spread thinly over days
sluicing through our clocking ins.
We make the table and lay the silver.
The sea salt placed centre square.

Being spliced through bristly fins
and expiring time in office cubicles,
circling the 28th and dreaming
of a land wash on Garda lake.

We don't want to be here feeling the
churn from a tuna sandwich. Sitting
there in lunch breaks like the
starved sea an…

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Posted by Ethan Hammond on June 29th, 2008 at 6:11pm — No Comments (Add)

The Ressurection of Tirawa (published)

Running through woods in Ithaca, miles from where you were.
Lateness of the hour causing a stumble; a torso disinterred and
blood trickling in a messy pool. You lying there prone to a
Southern wind-chill, knocking pales of air.

Through facing up through a veiled mist, brushing earthly sediments
from your eyelids, here Tirawa just sitting, turning carp on a skewer,
embers rubbing salt through her scales.

Thoughts…

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Posted by Ethan Hammond on June 29th, 2008 at 6:09pm — No Comments (Add)

My Name is Red (published)

The Memoirs of the Colour 'Red' (The biography of a pigment).

At the beginning
I was born of the
glassy shells of insects:
caramelised skelatons
crushed;
pummelled;
and etched
into a ceramic
mortar.

You can call me ochre,
for I am applied in dainty
strokes across a plainly
plastered board;
barren; devoid of
a scene, a single
moment of life.

One lady, well to do
may…

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Posted by Ethan Hammond on June 29th, 2008 at 6:07pm — No Comments (Add)

The first blog: goodbye forensic psychiatry!

Well it’s great to be here finally.

After a number of failed attempts and near guesses with my login details I have finally arrived.

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Posted by Ethan Hammond on June 20th, 2008 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 7:37pm on August 18th, 2008, Lynn said…: How have you been? I really like the profile pic. Can't see the edges well, curious about it.

At 5:35pm on June 29th, 2008, Lynn said…: Well hello! I understand, I am trying to regroup after a long break. I have always been a reader, and always a writer I suppose but by breaks I mean the acts of trying to do productive things with them. Keep in touch and feel free to commiserate by email, etc. as well.