by Fathima Zahra | Jan 31, 2025 | Word & Image
Egg Woman Series #5, collage & gel pen on paper, 2024 the egg woman spends her days writing she is alone again she must find a way to gather momentum Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet, writer, artist and blogger based in Birmingham, UK. She has been...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Charm for a walk In a dull sky the guttering flame of a white heron, drawn down to the bourne. Then a field of black dock fluttering and rising like a bedsheet of crows. The webbed slush that vanishes to the touch. Did you pay for...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Secrets We could tell there was something we weren’t allowed to know. Something kept hidden from us children, something not quite right with Mr Jones. We wondered why his wife had rabbit-in-the-headlight eyes. When blue lights came...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Rescuers When the waters broke we were out there, borderless, with just a view of bloodshot sky from the labour suite, his weight a nautilus shell, face pinched in perpetual sleep, one silk eyelid pulled awry as dawn held him at the edge of...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Forecasts of Flight Stripping wallpaper leaves naked the scrawls of yesteryear’s children, small forecasts of flights that are inevitable. Youthful skill teasing dreams of rocket ships, large soaring birds, treasure islands, galloping horses, and measurements of...
