by Fathima Zahra | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
LULLABY of CALMING – Do you take spec in your tea? Lavender seeps. I expect my limbs to leaden, lead the body down through sheet, mattress-cover, into the machinery of sleep where other lives exist. Landscapes of folding...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Still Face Experiment You must have seen that Youtube clip where a mother lets her face go dead. Her toddler carries on burbling for twenty to thirty seconds until she realises there is nothing coming back to her. First it is surprise, even laughing as this must...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 16, 2025 | Word & Image
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning Janina Diller is a writer and researcher, about to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by Richard Kerridge and Booker...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 9, 2025 | Filmpoems
Splice Asemic Triptych Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning. Katie Beswick is a writer from south east London. Recent poems appear in Rattle, Dust Poetry Magazine, The Waxed Lemon and The Haibun Journal. Her...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 1, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Turn, Turn, Turn Again as wind whispers your name. Summer’s breaking down and a starker calling comes – leaves saturated with sunset before surrendering. Turn as a gray owl brushes past, baring branches groaning in...
