by Prerana Kumar | Jul 3, 2023 | Word & Image
For a brief moment the illusion of life the wind is a wild puppeteer- pulling, weighing, coaxing a last flight into the air. I cannot leave you here to the jaws of the sugar ants to the feet of those who scarcely look down at the fallen treasures they...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 30, 2023 | Reviews
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins (106 pages of poetry) The first time I heard a poem by Arji Manuelpillai, he was reading from this collection on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’. The poem was called ‘Ways of Being Heard’, and I...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Canary Wharf Outside, in the plaza, men march forward. Women change from trainers to work heels. Gardeners rip out rows of wilting flowers. The news scrolls like a river round the Reuters building. No Police...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
SEVERANCE After Aisha Khalid I hear it’s rather like a firewall that was Swedenborg & here is the womb where Mozart can’t...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
SELECT BODIES We didn’t say it coming. Preoccupied By interchangeable analogies (the jasmine Blossom burdening the Avenues, plus several other factors) We walked to the library, anxiously Equipped. The afternoon Swung on its tender,...
