My first collection of poems, I SAW THE BEST MEMES OF MY GENERATION was released in November 2022 with Recent Work Press. The purchase link is here: https://recentworkpress.com/product/i-saw-the-best-memes-of-my-generation/

For years now Dominic Symes’ poetry has been lighter than air, ephemeral. The poems have been hiding online in plain sight—there, certainly, but indistinct amongst the lengthy goodreads reviews, fake horoscopes and arguments in the comments section. 

Like much else that finds its way onto the internet, the poetry in I SAW THE BEST MEMES OF MY GENERATION is fleeting, reactionary and selective with its facts—only ever tangentially concerned with the ‘real’ world. Somehow this book skewers SS utes, flower arrangement, the antiquated forms of Italian Opera, the emerging politics of the climate crisis and the misogynist underbelly of rock and roll with one flukey shot of an arrow. 

This much anticipated debut collection pins Symes’ viral poems down like delicate butterflies for the pleasure of your eighteenth century drawing room.