by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 28, 2026 | Featured, Word & Image
Ocean Song at South Head I am born of the folk of the tropical coasts, salt-rimmed hands my inheritance. I trace the vestiges of webs between my fingers— folds printed with the pearlescent stripes of nautilus shells. My foremothers woke with lucent skins—sun dribbling...
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 | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Word & Image
Eupatorium maculatum Acer pseudoplatanus Quercus robur About the plant poems: They were sketched from life in a notebook. Later I created riso prints with two or three colours based on the sketches. I tried to make the words...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
the first holiday Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 21, 2025 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Ferns There was a cold winding music a frozen answer. I knelt under time’s branches. The year the ferns sang. The year the ferns sang heard the lungs of every hillside dream my breath held the unfamiliar pedalled notes. I listened to violet reliance oh how the ferns...
