Author Archives: Cat Chong

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing atRoyal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry,Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017),and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and SpoonsPress, 2017). Her critical work includes two monographs,Continue reading “Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain: extract from ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’”

We’re so excited to announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October! This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure ofContinue reading “FORTHCOMING FROM OSMOSIS PRESS: Grief is a Thing in Pleather by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain (2025)”

Samuel Haecker Samuel Haecker is a multilingual poet, musician, and translator. He grew up across the US and Germany and speaks all matter of tongues, purportedly. His work has been published in Drunken Boat, SHIFT, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the Transletting collective

for klh i sent my friend klh a photograph of a Liberty print armchair – datable to 1988 from the care label sewn to its wicker woven base – which i had found on the side of the road, upended on top of a green sofa with its seams burst[1] klh: now this is aContinue reading “EK Myerson: what happens when a list takes on water?”

The intermittent spread of drifting cargo ships and the spinning of wind turbines dotting the horizon line broke the stillness of the water’s surface, but the hill was as close to silence as they’d ever heard. Just the low the whipping of the wind through branches, and the occasional call of a gull, but otherwiseContinue reading “JD Howse: Picture of Gray (1922), Henry Scott Tuke”

I ammy brainis being altered bymy phone         the way Iseek stimulus   behind                  it This is why I travel light              need to ______________________________ _ go to the ______bathroom                        without needing to why I                                                         smoke                                                                 clench jaw                                                                 tense                                                                 stay in bed ______________for escapewhich is        crucially never ____________just____________________________________________________to be silent but                  Continue reading “Will Staveley: Cogito Ergo”

Cankerblossom So where was I in all this, loiteringamid hyacinths and trying to rememberthe movements of desire that terrified memore than hell or the fact I no longer believedin Christ’s long embrace. It was twenty-eighteen. ________It was Monday. I was bipedal and awkward,the canary in a diamond mine.What use is there for warning callswhen dangerContinue reading “Luce Lovell: ‘Cankerblossom’ and ‘Notes for a Lecture’”

[________] Square brackets indicate short gaps in text due to damage to the source. Text inside of brackets indicate words inserted to give a better rendering in English. (__________) Round brackets indicate words parenthesised by the author(s). [(________)] Square brackets enclosing round brackets indicate uncertainty as whether there is a gap in the text. …Continue reading “Michael Sutton: Fragments from the Oath of Cave Ardales”

Catherine Hobbs Born in England, raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Catherine has lived in Chelsea, Quebec since 2001. She was the first writer from outside New York to read at Amplit Fest, Manhattan and she received two honorable mentions in the 2017 Lorian Hemingway Competition. Her work has appeared in funicular online, she participated in the 2021Continue reading “Catherine Hobbs: The Hermit Woman Bikes and Her Visitation”

(Notice: Should devout Jewish person object, thence demand change: delete YAHWEH within speech; employ Adonai, Elohim, HaShem, rather.) 1 During origin moment, YAHWEH forged heaven beside little planet sphere. 2 Planet missed having formal format; entire planet shaded inside opaque waters. Thusly, spirit within YAHWEH glided onward beyond opaque waters. 3 Thusly YAHWEH stated, “Behold!Continue reading “Greg Hill: ORIGIN: Yahweh Forges Entire Cosmos”