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...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Sue Wallace-Shaddad and Sula Rubens first met in 2019 and connected over their shared interest in the concepts of kinship and displacement. During the pandemic that connection grew and the two began to collaborate as Wallace-Shaddad’s interest in ekphrasis...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | Word & Image
D. Rhodes is a poet from the northwestern U.S., who has lived in Scotland since 2010. Her work has been published in the States and the UK. She was a member of the Seattle poetry ensemble Emily’s Insight. https://www.instagram.com/bananatrocious/...
by Kate Birch | Oct 3, 2023 | Reviews
crows at dusk by James Roderick Burns Red Moon Press (USA) www.redmoonpress.com $20 (USA) (112 pages) The first thing one notices when looking at James Roderick Burns’ haiku collection crows at dusk is its front cover, which features Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Crows...
by Kate Birch | Sep 30, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Pressed Flower I start nicking her daisies as if they’re sunlight plunging forward up the cracked garden path, plucking handfuls to stuff in my pockets, so I might press them in-between the dry paragraphs of a heavy book kept at the bottom of a...