by Sofía Masondo | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured, Prose
Eye Candy Lloyd is dressed like a candy bar in an all-too-bright gas station. Gleaming red tracksuit, brand name under the sternum like a label. Nike – Organic, Nutty, Satisfying. Clothes like buzzwords. Sunglasses like the metal sheen to the wrapper, my...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Black Pool 14,000 BC Midsummer’s Day On flat plains of low juniper scrub monolithic, massive remnants of ice dwarf the land, draws the herds: mammoth, deer, horse watch calves, fauns, foals while people, wolf, lynx, bear wait in the shade. The ice fails, cracking,...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Flat Holm Not the boring twin. Not even benign. This is a proper island: rocks, foghorn, lighthouse. Chinkle of footsteps on slate roof fragments – the detritus of war and peacetime paranoia. A glut of leadberries at the defensive ditch: juicy,...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Jacob Burgess Rollo is a poet and prose writer based in Dorset, his work is featured in From the Lighthouse and Avant Cardigan, a zine he founded with friends. He has an English Literature BA from Durham and is going on to study for a...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
a ghazal for Doggerland —after Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2021) we walk through the exhibition hall lost amongst water-logged bones, a sunk haul lost grave-deep underwater, newly unearthed as North-Sea...
