by Memoona Zahid | Apr 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Cost of Living after Deborah Levy His hair was not silver and not pinned into a bun. I’ve been reading it over and over. Obsession over something harmless must be a good thing. It’s a book, safe, I’ve been told. A woman saying things I like to hear,...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Homing I My mum used to say that when she died she wanted to come back as a well looked after cat. Two weeks before, for Christmas, I bought her a cat onesie. We assumed she would be spending plenty of time on the sofa with our tabbies – enough for the...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 16, 2021 | Video
Isolation by Richard C. Bower Settle me With a restive hand of congregation One that makes me sit back and think again Offer me a chink of light As opposed to the consumer society With its dreams that end in ruined plight … As I walk on/I realize How...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 14, 2021 | Reviews
Mither Tongue – A love letter to translation Parallel translations always bring a certain kind of joy. I have fond memories of reading Pablo Neruda for the first time, original text on the left, English translation on the right. Feeling out the Spanish sounds out loud...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 2, 2021 | Video
Out On The World by Catriona Knapman Out on the world, out on the gentle crater edge there is a journey made by the curious, escaping the easily convinced. Out on the world, each station is a sort of progress, a sort of regression, each traveller carrying a...
