by Chloe Elliott | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Sean’s Ghost leans over the garden wall next the hairpin bend to hand me a rosy apple with the same gesture he himself showed of a stumblebum evening when I was a child making my way home after a bad day at school. Though the apple holds no substance now, and...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
HERONLESS I look for him from the foot bridge he’s not in any of his usual places not mid-stream in shallows not below the arch under the road not at the corner on a stony outcrop the fishes are swimming undeterred and the day feels so...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 20, 2022 | Reviews
To craft poetry that remains impactful and affecting whilst avoiding emotive, didactic writing is a real art. And Fool’s Paradise by Zoe Brooks is a rare example of this type of artistry –a potent book which is nuanced, suggestive and often ambiguous. Brooks is...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 13, 2022 | Reviews
In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent. Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 7, 2022 | Poetry, Word & Image
Star Walks, biro on paper, 2022 (text source from Sum: Tales of the Afterlife, David Eagleman, p.21) Consistency, gel pen & biro on paper, 2022 (text source from The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, p.111) Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet,...