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 Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2025 | 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 2025...
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...