by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
sudden flurries the Christmas star inside every persimmon Haiku written originally for Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2020 Holiday Celebration Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language...
by Kate Birch | Dec 21, 2022 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
my father wears a yellow mask my father wears a yellow mask leans into the wooden staff —a farmer’s gift from Dartmoor— years before. His legs unsteady, my legs unsteady, perhaps autumn already knows our quest for apples, led us here to this shelf lined with...
by Chloe Elliott | Dec 9, 2022 | Word & Image
Right now, they’re shit, 2022 My head is still moving, 2022 Jennifer Maddock is a graphic designer from Cheshire who lives on her narrowboat on the Macclesfield canal. She has always drawn, written and recorded things that have happened. She uses...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 25, 2022 | Word & Image
Love in the Suburbs Daylight fades. Between the azalea bushes, a pair of yellow eyes slowly blinks. Inside, at the dinner table a pristine cloth, china plates, an untouched glass of wine. Face blanched white, a daughter freezes, as her father seethes and spits. You...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 7, 2022 | Poetry, Word & Image
Star Walks, biro on paper, 2022 (text source from Sum: Tales of the Afterlife, David Eagleman, p.21) Consistency, gel pen & biro on paper, 2022 (text source from The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, p.111) Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet,...
by Chloe Elliott | Oct 27, 2022 | Word & Image
Daniel Lehan’s visual and collaged poetry has appeared in print and online magazines, and his work Book Pages Destroyed By Typewriter is included in The New Concrete, Visual Poetry in The 21st Century, published by Hayward Publishing. Artist Booksite:...