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...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 21, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Lacrimosa, 2004 //There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly. //The last time I stood by the sea, the waves snaked in and swept my shoes away in one quick lick of tide. I walked home barefoot...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 20, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Holly Queen She curled emerald tights about the core of an oak slumbering with thick bare limbs. He had lost his hair she noticed a vast shock of lemon green let fall to a muddy mulch below. Ivy’s agile twitches hugged tight twisting,...