by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 21, 2023 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Embrace after an Elmwood sculpture by Richard Lawrence His hands hook her waist as if pulling her from a flower. She closes her eyes in the little cave she finds under his chin. Let this blizzard bury them together, fill the footprints they won’t leave, his...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 11, 2023 | Word & Image
Portrait of writer Nicolas Padamsee: (Oil on paper) Wake up to me somewhere in the outskirts of London back at home I am drinking tea out of a steel glass with a thick rim somewhere in a colourful Grecian neighborhood lips and cigarettes burn, politics, and sex...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 27, 2023 | Word & Image
At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Bough...
by Kate Birch | Oct 9, 2023 | Word & Image
Helen Ivory’s sixth Bloodaxe collection ‘Constructing a Witch’ is due in October 2024. She is editor for Ink Sweat & Tears and teaches online for NCW/UEA. Wunderkammer New and Selected Poems is published in the US by MadHat Press. She has...
by Kate Birch | Oct 8, 2023 | Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of Strange’s poems and artworks have been published worldwide....
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | Word & Image
Rising Head against cheek, arms holding tight, they rise from the water like disembodied ghosts. No words to explain from where they have come. The sea is a foreign place. Not all will escape. Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s pamphlet with artist Sula...
