by Memoona Zahid | Apr 2, 2021 | More Word & Image
Out On The World by Catriona Knapman Out on the world, out on the gentle crater edge there is a journey made by the curious, escaping the easily convinced. Out on the world, each station is a sort of progress, a sort of regression, each traveller carrying a...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 20, 2021 | More Word & Image
I dream of the sea by Josephine Corcoran Spring has come Wild fireworks of garlic Abundant as uncut grass Wildflowers enormous Inside In my small life I listen to rain Dream Of the sea Original haiku by Yosa Buson: harusame ya koiso no kogai nururu hodo...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 5, 2021 | More Word & Image
(content warning for mental illness) the boxer by Tom Stockley three months ago, i was stood here wishing more than anything to fall into the water, to stop feeling so much pain for just existing three months later, i walked past saw a man get off his bike, stand...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 19, 2021 | More Word & Image
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili (illustrations and animation created by Sleep Never Comes To Me) Open the rock. There, by the river where a streak of blood is so thin it cannot be alarming. Split the rock in half and you will find cooked ham, bubbling white...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 5, 2021 | More Word & Image
The Vultures of Prometheus by Ruth Aylett Nobody asked us if we liked liver especially a man’s, especially a demi-god’s. Eyes are much tastier, but we aren’t allowed to blind, part of the punishment is to see us coming. And this diet is disgustingly monotonous,...
by Memoona Zahid | Jan 22, 2021 | More Word & Image
The Wood Conductor by Marc Woodward There was no sign of a woodcutter in the tin shack raised from the red earth, the black wood of an archived forest. Dismembered trees haunted the air, ghosts in the pungency of cut pine. A tepid cup sat by a soiled...