by Prerana Kumar | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Foresting Grannylou steps into the forest and a thousand Grannylous greet her. A mess of baby Grannylous roll along the forest floor, plum-cheeked and pawing at squirrel tails, giggling at twenty-something Grannylous who slot themselves into...
by Prerana Kumar | Apr 25, 2023 | Word & Image
Time Suspended, gel pen & biro on paper, 2022, (text source: A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr, p.104) Nina Nazir (she/her) is a British Pakistani artist, poet and general creative bod based in Birmingham, UK. She’s had work...
by Prerana Kumar | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Ceres in the garden You wring yourself from me a sort of ripening a size-of-fist fruit pome trailing smashed seed juice you slip from my palms, lovelike my plum pudding prismatised in the light in your soft proto-placental such brilliant viscera...
by Prerana Kumar | Apr 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
peter lacy you beg me to saturate you like oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber just a whiff of torso a lungful of animalic notes my bones smell smoky & powdery against yours don’t magnetise yourself I prefer you smaller than a nail...
by Prerana Kumar | Apr 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
When an albatross crash-lands in a dream Long ago I saw an albatross fly head-first into a dream so fast so hard it penetrated half a mile deep. Inside the crater a wreckage of feather and bone remains which over millennia became this fossilised...
