by Kate Birch | Mar 21, 2025 | Word & Image
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves 悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团 stripped of spindly epicormic shoots, the now-knuckle-tree jabs her skeletal arms over the snapped stale breaths of pale, orange shavings powdering the tree surgeon’s yellow truck. Her psoriatic...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 28, 2025 | Word & Image
IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on colour, history and conflict. S. Niroshini writes poetry and fiction. She is the author of Darling Girl (Bad Betty Press,...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 31, 2025 | Word & Image
Egg Woman Series #5, collage & gel pen on paper, 2024 the egg woman spends her days writing she is alone again she must find a way to gather momentum Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet, writer, artist and blogger based in Birmingham, UK. She has been...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 16, 2025 | Word & Image
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning Janina Diller is a writer and researcher, about to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by Richard Kerridge and Booker...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year we will meet again on the other side Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is...
by Kate Birch | Dec 26, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
26th December in the Quiet That comes Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is forthcoming from...