Author Archives: Cat Chong

Hannah May Harding Hannah is a poet and visual artist based in South London. She combines experimental poetic practice, digital illustration and collecting to create ecologically driven work. Often wellie-booted and clay speckled, she loves searching the Thames foreshore to collect hidden stories, rubbish from centuries past, and chance encounters with fellow rag and boneContinue reading “Hannah May Harding: Finder”

together indexing paddocksas sites of actionin fallen winter sun towards a manifestoof clutter & commune,the quarter-acre fluxus event, the laboratory forland flattening, mystical in thedark air with elegant foreign accents & egrets, attentiveagents arranging the scenefor new visitors stopping for a sunset, assembled as totems ondry and heavy landlocked hills,persuaded the view is clean BarnabyContinue reading “Barnaby Smith: Groundwork”

What do you dream of, bellybutton,when we sleep and you rise upand down like waves? Is it oval emptinessin my stretching backbends, is it dustor my mother’s blood? Is it pressingagainst a cold mirror, where you squint& search for the other end? What aboutfinding a jean button as smooth as a tongue?I’ve thought about this,Continue reading “E.K. Bartlett: Remnants after birth”

da tutte parti l’alta valle fedatremò sì, ch’i’ pensai che l’universosentisse amor, per lo qual è chi creda più volte il mondo in caòsso converso (Dante, Inferno, Canto XII, 40–43) I Shadowy dark spacesloom and mass:the interiors of Dante’s mind. One is predestined to pass into their inner geographies,their eschatologiesand eerie permanencies. The strange takingandContinue reading “Peter Donnelly: An Infernal Intelligence”

D. Seth Horton D. Seth Horton was born on the border, wrote his dissertation on modernist literature in the American Southwest, and founded the anthology series, New Stories from the Southwest. His latest book is a forthcoming collection of experimental stories set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands entitled, On a NASA Flight to Heaven (TCU Press, 2024). He hasContinue reading “D. Seth Horton: extracts from ‘Border [Patrol] Assemblage’”

hope is the thing with hollow//ed bonestallow groans wrestling through // to fillthe marrowspacepneumatised kaleidoscope stoppered// speared into soft flesh avian bones are hollow to maintain alightweight body and facilitate oxygenintake, which is how biologists have cometo understand their ability to take flight. but really it is because the air is [without] and the airContinue reading “Sav Altair Hamid: on ornithology”

They went down the Bay to Staten Island Colony. They assemble down the longdining table in a quintessential farm house. The year is 1620. Cuddly jumpers andpatterned vests are worn. The table is bountiful. Seating: multigenerational.Dishes are shared. They are floral painted ceramic. Cutlery and faint big-bandmusic. Softshade lighting. There is a Christmas tree. TheContinue reading “Silas Curtis: CAST AWAY / TERRA NULLIUS”

Wilting on my desk,notifications ignored—plants crave my timeline. Dry leaves on the floor,lost in endless scroll again—green turns to brown dust. Phone rests, screen darkens,hands find the watering can—gentle drops on thirsty soil. Digital pause, breathe,water trickles through dry roots—green revives gradually. Olya K-Mehri Olya K-Mehri is a London-born poet of Iranian heritage, based inContinue reading “Olya K-Mehri: Gathering Dust”

Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) is from Fife and lives in the Fens and Norfolk coast. Her first poems were published in IS&T. She has since had about 70 published, including in Lighthouse Literary Journal, York Mix, Ofi Press Magazine (Mexico), The Caterpillar, Under the Basho, The Curly Mind, VOLT (USA) and OSMOSIS.

from Red Russula sp.It’s useless to pretend to know mushrooms— John Cage [Partial Appendix] Fig. 2 Likely either Russula fragilis, the Fragile Brittlegill, or Russula mairei, the Beechwood Sickener James Coghill Currently based in Bat & Ball, James spends his free time following the threads of his various preoccupations, including (but not limited to) fungi,Continue reading “James Coghill: from Red Russula sp.”