Tamsyn Challenger

Tamsyn Challenger

    Fret Soft droplets form on protrusions Floating legs in front A saline nest laps around flesh traps underneath Only a few feet are visible creeping, fogging our possibility Steam could rise from skin but here only unease is let in A mouldering of...
Moira McPartlin

Moira McPartlin

  Magnificence For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer What jewelled gifts are these, spliced and stacked on platters of smeared glass? A universe of micro. You breathed life to mitre continents, raised spikebergs of vitamin C. Sulphur produced Marvel-ready planets...
Jessamine O’Connor

Jessamine O’Connor

    Nerve Music Sometimes I’m jittery like this        jittering nervousness appears as a tremor from somewhere distant     far away     inside and I’m on edge but maybe on edge       is advantageous where things happen the best location for seeing each peak...
Janet Lees

Janet Lees

Nine Moons  Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and high white and hard as a pill While you dream of stone trees under the ground it drops from the sky into the glass beside your bed dissolves with a bone-saw sigh The water clouds and then clears stands...
Ofem Ubi

Ofem Ubi

      ANY LAST WORDS. (Chapter 3 of film Back on Home Soil) A friend says, grief leaves everyone behind She ruminates on her words and goes grief leaves no one behind It shows in the way grief leaves a fraction in memory: Recollections once pristine are...
Martin Rieser

Martin Rieser

    Chipko Saving the trees We came to the tree with open arms in hope, with a feel for rain, we left the forest’s endless charms and the lost words, and the new alarms for the great tree’s growing pains. We knew the wind and we knew the earth and the...