by Prerana Kumar | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Nightcrawler Your black eyes, black as the void that surrounds us, stare back at me, so black they catch any trickle of light, the time on the radio, the table lamp, the crack between curtains that let the day in prematurely. They are my eyes,...
by Prerana Kumar | Mar 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Indoor Cloudspotting Yesterday was leadbellied. Bearing down not floating away. A sense of nimbostratus gathering shadows outside the kitchen windows. You tick the box marked ‘chance of rain’. We’re classifying drift, tabulating it into neat...
by Prerana Kumar | Mar 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Two Girls on a Greyhound The older girl turns her face towards the window. Hides behind her curtain of long brown hair. Her sister is asleep. They are never going back there. Stepping off the coach, the seat of the young girl’s jeans is...
by Prerana Kumar | Mar 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Errata A boy at school liked to collect the broken nibs of pencils: dozens of fractured graphite tines he kept inside a secret compartment in a carved wooden case. They rattled in his bag as he walked: a constant reminder of shoddy penmanship, of...
by Prerana Kumar | Mar 23, 2023 | Reviews
Violet Existence by Katy Wareham Morris Broken Sleep Books, £6.50 (40 pages) Sparking with electricity and a dextrous fluidity, this pamphlet takes the reader from the hospital ward to the hedgerow, and from Masterchef to Mother Nature’s ever-bubbling...
