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...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 27, 2020 | Featured, Word & Image
Plastic Poem II – Limerick Rob Stuart’s poems, visual poems and short stories have been published in magazines, newspapers and webzines all over the world. He has also written the screenplays for several award-winning and...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured, Word & Image
Black Coffee and Cigarettes Close to the leaf a black raven In nature what would happen normally is that dogs chase cats Of course the zebra looks to the sky They were naming them after household objects: the telephone, the aspidistra, the cuckoo clock They...
