by Kate Birch | Oct 8, 2023 | Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of Strange’s poems and artworks have been published worldwide....
by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Ashes They wake in the small hours in the country house, long miles from Hudiksvall. Moonlit snow lies thick. Dark pines shelter the still garden, their shadows lie elongated, spear-head sharp, on crystal whiteness. Dawn comes late. Always dark...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 7, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
CW: Rape Olives Healing is exchanging rape anecdotes, sitting on a bench outside a pub, eating fat green olives and drinking Guinness. How do you begin? She says, new fringe tickling her eyelids, When the body has its own indelible memory? There’s...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 6, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
In My Sister’s Arms When she boarded the ship off the coast of Libya, waters were calm and skies flat blue. She stayed afloat with refugees for days, sharing rice and beans, stories of their left-behinds, never to be seen again abodes. And as they...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | Word & Image
Rising Head against cheek, arms holding tight, they rise from the water like disembodied ghosts. No words to explain from where they have come. The sea is a foreign place. Not all will escape. Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s pamphlet with artist Sula...
