Ian Seed teaches creative writing at the University of Chester. He has lived and worked in different countries including Italy, France and Poland. Seed is probably best known for his prose poems, which read like accounts of dreams, at once disconcerting and mysterious. He has published five collections of poetry, including three books entirely of prose poems. ‘When I Was Eight’ is from his latest collection, New York Hotel (Shearsman Books, 2018). Seed has also published a number of chapbooks, and translations of Polish and Italian poets. He is assistant director of the International Flash Fiction Association.
Walking in the fields, I saw a lone Alsatian dog. It started running towards me. I thought the safest thing would be to lie down, to close my eyes and feign dead. A moment later, flat on the ground, I felt the dog sniffing and nuzzling my face. Then I felt its teeth around my wrist, but the dog was not biting me. It was trying to pull me towards something.
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