by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
ALMANACS 21. Your optics’ fuzz is merciful. Value speckles on mirrors. Above par days have routed. Profess want of upset – Grizzled hairs invade, marauding. 24. Festoon pine ’til glitzy. Shroud bounty in vivid overlays. Letterbox cards...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
L Kiew is a Chinese-Malaysian based in London, and works as a charity sector leader and accountant. Her debut pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books (2019). She was a 2019/2020 London Library Emerging...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Containment I drive your lemon yellow Smart ForTwo six hundred miles home from your flat— stuffed to the roof, my suitcase crammed on top, your miniature car swells to welcome a pile of your leavings, rescued from Junk-It Ltd. house clearance:...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We Move the Time of Evensong You have changed the Bible you have changed the words in the service you have brought in girls to serve at the altar and women can now be sidesmen and any minute...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 15, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A dental technician rips up a postcard of dental puns Have you known the suffering wrought by damaged mouths? Or the solemn joy of healing? Have you reckoned with the uses of dental records? Think through the murdered and the long dead; think of things...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 14, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
coffee and the interconnectedness of all things i like the darkness of it, the bitterness, the ring of light reflected on the surface. i like the story. the crushed beans. the crop growing on the side of a mountain. i like the journey, but in...