Today’s choice

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Jade Prince

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Jade Prince hails from Essex but currently resides in Leeds. She has been published in PEN Transmissions and Poetry & Audience amongst many others, and currently holds a place with The Writing Squad.

Philip Gross

This is the song of the cells’
soft throb, the quivering coherences,
their shuffling the profit and loss
of life, to have and to hold.

B. Anne Adriaens

      symptoms she is aggregate concrete and grit held together in a human shape lying on her side knees drawn up flesh tensing to stone and tendons in flames the weight of her body pressed into the mattress leaves a shallow hollow once she’s gone a...

Ansuya Patel

Think what it must have been like for her
fasting from sunrise to moonrise, to wake up
 
three hours before dawn, bathe, apply sindoor
on the parting of her hair line . . .