Arran D'Aubigny

I grew up holding opposites. A charismatic, megalomaniac entrepreneurial father who made and lost millions, and a deeply spiritual mother. They separated early, and instability became normal. I attended nineteen schools, grew up in a large, fiercely loyal family, and learned early how to move between worlds, belief systems, and classes.

Later in life I experienced both entrepreneurial success and loss, survived life saving surgery, and eventually chose physical work, now working in removals. Having lived across class boundaries, I feel most grounded in practical labour and the body. Poetry became a survival technique rather than an ambition, a way of creating worlds outside the given one. My work is concerned with memory, forgetting, loyalty, and the quiet mechanics of endurance.

Conversations with stars, the sea and the heart.