by IB | Jul 14, 2025 | Reviews
Poet Amlanjyoti Goswami’s third collection of verses, A Different Story (Poetrywala, 2025), conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance. This curious...
by IB | Jun 30, 2025 | Reviews
‘this too is a glistening’ is a collaborative pamphlet by Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed and Nina Mingya Powles. Written over a weekend at Brandenburg, it is a collection of vignettes, poems andprose tackling questions about selfhood, the body and...
by IB | Jun 30, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
white flag, black flag he lived with his hand permanently on the throttle, like it would kill him if he let it go. existence passed in flashes, his alcohol soaked dreams indistinguishable from reality—he was a victim of his divorced mind chalking up his...
by IB | Jun 29, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Bananas My mother gives me a pound note, creased, warm like a secret. Go buy a pound of bananas, she says, and I, too quick, ran out. I walk the tiled floor of the grocers, past rows of sparkly gala apples, ruby grapes size of gobstoppers. I point at the...
by IB | Jun 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
A woman is scrubbing a grave A woman is scrubbing a grave but the blood remains a woman dreams of a brown beast driven mad and knows it is herself a woman believes the voice in her mind nurses the splinter of glass in her heart a woman may defend herself...
