Welcome to Bibliomaniac

The Two Faces of Peri, both of which are pretty fucking cranky

Welcome to Bibliomaniac, the online home of me - Carly-Jay Metcalfe - as I ponder literature, life, writing, medicine, ageing, my recalcitrant fleshy vessel and the curious and sometimes perilous machinations of my perimenopausal brain.

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If you want to go back to the beginning to see where I was in 2024, please click here. All of the posts that I published previously on Substack are here in chronological order.

Warm wishes and happy reading,

CJM

I have left Substack

Enshittification + n*zis + right wing fuqery + AI = bye bitch 👋🏼 I’ve been feeling uneasy about Substack for a while for all the reasons listed in the post description above. And because I’m trying to be the change I want to see in the world, leaving is an easy decision.

The Professor

Slow Sundays call for poetry

A poem I wrote for Cam, who you met on my last post 🌈 Dilectus And so, it is weeks now. Not a year, not months; the anticipation of chemotherapy expired. Just the work of grief, the clipping of loose ends, the tucking under of seams, weaving them in until the

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The Professor

Slow Sundays call for poetry

Dear Life ... don't stalk your loved ones transplant recipients, m'kay?