by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com)...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 28, 2021 | Word & Image
ONCE sunlight splashed like wine across our table where you knelt at work on crayon glyphs announcing your creations two by two Spiral! Spiral! Words turning to songbirds in your mouth dancing helix to my ear one sparrow then a second lifting in defiance of the arrow...
by Kate Birch | Feb 14, 2021 | Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 1, 2021 | Word & Image
(click on each image to enlarge) Callum James is a book-dealer with a specialisation in queer literature. He grew up on an island and still lives near the sea. He writes about landscape, magic and trauma. His poetry has appeared, among other places, in Magma,...
by Memoona Zahid | Jan 18, 2021 | Word & Image
The locusts have no king they wandered about in sheepskins speckled and spotted among the goats They were stoned hills melted like wax mountains skipped like rams And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons they gathered the quails quails...
by Nick Stone | Dec 29, 2020 | Word & Image
Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com) (Instagram @helen.pletts) Working collaboratively as Word & Image by Pletts & Berger with illustrator Romit Berger, since 2011 (published exclusively online by www.inksweatandtears.co.uk). Helen’s poetry was...
