by Kate Birch | Dec 1, 2025 | Translation, Word & Image
Reconnaître I want to remember the way back. It seems Orion has the compass’ foot, Swinging his other leg out into the dark With the confidence of a man who walks on stars. I use the skills of the corncrake tonight. I need to remember in the...
by Elontra Hall | Nov 3, 2025 | Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill poet and artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world. Her book, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024), received 3rd Place in the 2025 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.
by Elontra Hall | Oct 15, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
A zuihitsu of strings A zuihitsu of strings for Ying A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly...
by Kate Birch | Jul 11, 2025 | Word & Image
Cosmic Spirit The beauty and fragility of Ryoko Minamitani paintings will mesmerise your mind into eternity. https://www.ryokom.com/, Instagram: @ryokom.3, Facebook. Xavier Panadès i Blas (aka The Poetry Beast)’s writings absorb the readers to the...
by IB | Jun 27, 2025 | Word & Image
In the Japanesque Garden, I Realised Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet, writer, visual artist and blogger based in Birmingham, UK. She has been published widely online and in print....
by IB | Jun 16, 2025 | Word & Image
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual art in Nanjing, China and Bourges, France, and now works as a freelance journalist. Her short stories appear in Litro, The Mechanic Institutes’...