by Memoona Zahid | Mar 31, 2021 | Reviews
An original approach to the description and contemplation of life, nature and universal stories characterises Williams’s ninth collection. This ‘Almanack’ is a ‘magpie’...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Wanting Joy Glory be to the changeable wretch I am condemned to dance within. Spirits thumb a ride surging synapse and hurling ourselves in directionless tangles. Joy is hard. Joy must. I seek sepulchred secret caves inside guts where sin...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 29, 2021 | Word & Image
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first nourished by heat, and then entirely undone by its persistence, leaves dried into their own kind of oblivion. So, their time of beauty was done....
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
LAZY ABECEDARIAN FOR SUMMER MORNING PRESERVE ROUTINE A pile of kitchen-stove kindling twists Braids with achamma’s kuttichattan hair ribbon Creasing her fingers when she crushes a twig Dew-dropping her brew for new mothers in Early morning rose-light we...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 28, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
spiralling during Planet Earth Attenborough’s voice echoes in my head (like God) He says that we need to act now (draws us all in with baby orangutans and birds that look like aliens.) Because otherwise, no one cares. Does he know that? Current levels of...