Author Archives: Cat Chong

introduction ‘“Error is associated with an unavoidable ignorance, ― when one gropes, so to speak, in the dark.”’2 Ruch states that a Freudian slip, is different to an error in the sense that, dissimilarly to an error, a slip ‘allows the transfer of extra, relevant information.’ It permits the listener to interpret, ‘extra information thatContinue reading “Lucie Staniek: chapter six: ‘“disastrologies” – would be the title, do you like it? I think it suits us well.’1”

Some roots move like they’ve heard rumours of fire and want to meet it halfway.They don’t grow—they lunge, they trespass, they take what the worms have left behind.Last night I dreamt they stole the names of my ancestors and wore them like masks.There’s a sound down there that isn’t earth shifting—it’s something deciding.They wrap aroundContinue reading “Olya K-Mehri: The Soil Does Not Approve of What Is Happening Below”

Thāi-mozhi/ തായ്മൊഴിmemory, language, place words sprout along the inner walls of the womb. breathe. grow. move. words, like cells,gather or separate into form or formless. womb, a claypot, grows within another pot withinyet another. time preserves nothing. time disappears in the vast distances. unearthing theancient burial yards, I find, shards. broken pieces of a terracottaContinue reading “M. P. Pratheesh: Thāi-mozhi/ തായ്മൊഴി”

Make your own Easter bread, kozunak, every Orthodox Easter it’s a recipe you found on the Internet that worked the first time but never again, and you even managed to braid the dough like they sell it in your home country all year round, which is no longer your home, but you refuse the silentContinue reading “Kapka Nilan: How to prove you still belong”

Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell)‘s most recent visual / topographical poetry has been published by VOLT (USA), Tears in the Fence and Ink Sweat &Tears; set to music and sung outdoors as part of a choral theatre production in conjunction with an Antony Gormley exhibition by The Voice Project; and shown in the Imaginal Field Project’s inaugural exhibition. 

where:grasslands sweep over the landfillmud is silvered by waterthe A13 is dampened by flightgravel pit chutes house the futurelorries bring waste to waste where the air is the only thing you can feel when:the roses die and the rosehips comethe cold is snappingstorms blow in from the eastApril is too calmthe south is too broilingContinue reading “Dani Salvadori: At Rainham Marshes”

Flux AH Curse the blue lexicon, flecked with gilt.Its mind is a snow algebra, its throat aButchered mouth. On the grand lawns of syzygy,Where thought and blood take wing… Light malingers.The marksman shuts his eye. On stroke of blindNew isthmus, an obelisk tunelessly. The inscrutable forester,His forelick damp with love, exudes a fruitlessArdour for friskedContinue reading “Rahul Santhanam: ‘Flux AH’ and ‘Flux BI’”

Sam Francis Sam is an artist and edgeland naturalist who writes. She has had an on-going preoccupation with the colour green for some time. In dialogue with non-human life forms, her work explores themes of aloneness, often within the landscape, and seen through an eco-feminist lens. Text plays a central role in her visual work,Continue reading “Sam Francis: ‘The garden’, ‘The portal’, and ‘The vessel’”

Signs on LeavesThe Aeneid 3 519-521 Her visions are clear when she wants to seestill tapestry scenes of all human fates.She captures her wisdom as signs on leaves. The vanishing insects – not just the bees,collateral in Big Farma’s arms race.The data is stark, we just have to see. From cash crops that fail toContinue reading “Laura Davis: Signs on Leaves”

Walt Whitman stands as a towering figure in the pantheon of American letters, a poet whose visionary voice transcended the constraints of his era to capture the very soul of a nation.1 Heralded as the father of modern American poetry, he infused his work with an unparalleled sense of human dignity, democratic idealism, and transcendentContinue reading “Ryan T. Pozzi: The Life and Legacy of Walt Whitman: With Unfortunate Clarifications from the Undersigned”