by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Office Workers Against Sewage Some days I must immerse myself in the waters These days are more than others Monday 09.06 – a sewage overflow has activated Some days on the shore silence as we change snuggle mugs, pass biscuits around Tuesday...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured, Word & Image
tangential light clear skies nightfall, constellations, spool. a regular pattern. metrical rhythm not simply read but sung. Emily Coles is a visual artist whose practice is focused on artist’s books. Her work often explores text and pattern. She...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Cartographer He does not shout. He charts. Where treaty lines once hung like old nets, he inks the deep, the dark, the yet-unmade. The map bleeds where his stylus rests. Tested: the pipeline’s buried nerve, the cable’s woven thought, the...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 19, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
03:41 Downstairs a poem for insomniacs Huddled on the cat’s blanket, hyenas crying through the night. Scribbled notes regretting tea, the need for light. Time passes, shoulders settle the hyenas to a quiet shout. Everything goes cold as energy,...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Scavengers I loved the tales Luke told me of starving writers, and the sacrifices they made following their hearts. Philip K Dick eating dog food. Bukowski’s candy bars. A forgotten Fitzgerald’s writing How are you? postcards to himself in the...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
At the Barbers She has a way of tilting your head as if lining up a thought. Neither rough nor tender—decisive, like someone used to responsibility. She remembers names, gently enquires after sick wives, errant sons, daughters who never phone,...
