various creative projects

(no particular order)

4 fights ep

EP cover with repeated tiles of Tom looking blankly suspicious and Koshka's face up close with bloody lip. Text reads: Stolen Goods. 4 fights.

Stolen Goods, 2023. Music and lyrics by Koshka Duff & Tom Kemp. Available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and other streaming platforms.

Latest from my band. We play around Notts and for the past few years we’ve run an open mic night at our local pub, the Robin Hood. Sporadically on insta @stolengoodsband.

What’s our sound? Big piano energy, apocalypse pop.

Stolen Goods on stage at The Bodega, Nottingham.

Koshka playing keyboard on stage at The Chameleon Arts Cafe, Nottingham.

Find more Stolen Goods in VIDEOS & podcasts

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‘for “i love you” say fuck the police’

Box of copies of Tripwire journal. Cover of Tripwire 19 shows black and white image of Sean Bonney reading. Sign reads: Pay what you'd like. All proceeds go to Peppy's Defense Fund.

Koshka Duff, 2023. 'for 'I love you' say f*ck the police": Abolition in and through the poetry of Sean Bonney'. In Tripwire: a journal of poetics.

Also forthcoming in ArtiCHOKE, a Berlin poetry reading series and magazine.

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‘Now’ in abolition sci-fi

Abolition Science Fiction book with dark blue cover. Illustration inside of person in space suit.

Koshka Duff, 2022. 'Now' [poem]. In Phil Crockett Thomas (ed.), Abolition Science Fiction. A collection by activists and scholars involved in prison abolition and transformative justice in the UK.

Author Q&A interview with Rémy-Paulin Twahirwaby published on LSE Blog, 24 May 2023.

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‘Decay’ in KRUK BOOK

Spider under glass on piece of paper with chord names written on it.

Stolen Goods, 2022. 'Decay' [lyrics]. In David Grundy (ed.), Kruk Book: An Anthology for Frances Kruk, London: Materials.

‘They say some stars are waiting / in the basement you keep closed / joy drops like a banner / burns us like the rain

They climb into the mountains / and no step rings back’

writing it & about it, translating & loving it

‘All prisoners are political prisoners’

The Moon Spins the Dead Prison book cover with illustrations of birds inside squares on yellow background.

Koshka Duff & Connor Woodman, 2022. A political essay inspired by poet Diane di Prima’s ‘Revolutionary Letter #49’.

In Phil Crockett Thomas, Thomas Abercromby & Rosie Roberts (eds.), The Moon Spins the Dead Prison: An Anthology of Abolition. Published as part of the Glasgow-based School of Abolition art and activism project.

Contributors include Lola Olufemi and Harry Josephine Giles.

death and the people

Koshka with short bobbed hair sitting at Steinway grand piano.

Konstancja Duff, 2015. An album of piano music by Rachmaninov, Schubert, Bartok & Brahms, recorded while I was at the Royal College of Music.

Includes 16 page illustrated booklet of notes about the music, written by me. Available on Bandcamp (with liner notes) or Spotify (without notes).

sometimes just being weird

‘an inquiry into how to live when the future is foreclosed’

Koshka outside reading from book of poetry with red smoke bomb in background.

Koshka Duff, 2021. Poetry pamphlet written during lockdown, published by Veer2. For Dara Bascara (1983-2021).

Veer2 Poetry reading event poster with swirling colours. Text reads: Tania Favela, Lotte LS, Koshka Duff, Naomi Weber, Will Rowe. 21st July 7pm. Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD.

‘ticking off the big three’ in refuse to collaborate

Cover of Refuse to Collaborate book with colourful digitally manipulated image of angry octopus attacking tourists.

Koshka Duff, 2022. Part of the exhibition Refuse to Collaborate by Sophie Carapetian at the Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland.

Find my reading at the exhibition opening night in VIDEOS.

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can be therapeutic

Bagatelltrauma (film)

Black and white photo of Koshka age two with childhood friend. Screaming perhaps with excitement. Dirty wall in background.

Koshka Duff & Ollie Evans, 2017. Bagatelltrauma: Dream-games of repetition and resistance. Short film about law and the uncanny in Robert Schumann’s ‘Scenes of Childhood’.

Premiered at Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London.

Koshka age 4 with mum on empty road in Zaspa area of Gdansk, Poland. Soviet-style tower blocks in background.

Frances Kruks stecknadel

Open copy of STECKNADEL lying on top of other colourful poetry books. Text in German.

Koshka Duff (trans.), Lotta Thießen & Lisa Jeschke (eds.), 2017. STECKNADEL. Translation into German of PIN, a pamphlet of poems and collages by FRANCES KRUK. Materialien, Munich.

wo sind die Nagelpistolen benutzt sie überall

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die hände, die wir nicht sehen, die hände, die sehen wir nicht

Collage by Frances Kruk showing Queen's head emerging from front of strange machine, bullets being thrown by a hand out the back. Black and white drawing.

Frances Kruk reading at Tottenham Chances, London. Artwork by Lucy Beynon in background showing caricature Adam Smith on eerie pink giant banknote.

Collage by Frances Kruk showing a long-legged spider with top hat levitating above their head. Black and white drawing.