She slips past a gaggle of American tourists bickering over ice-creams. Parade Gardens, today, is livid with colour: cultivated borders and flowerbeds are rioting, tipping out of control. It’s beautiful, calming even. But not one of these holidaymakers has noticed. They want to see the Jane Austen Centre next. No, they are sick of history,Continue reading “Michael Loveday: Fallen Leaves”
Author Archives: Cat Chong
Tamsyn Challenger: ‘Rubbing’, ‘ChatGPT standing in for you’, ‘In Fill Trait’, and ‘Very Bye’
To date, my poems have all been inspired by a friend, another poet I’ve known for a long time. I wrote ‘Rubbing’ and then asked ChatGPT to answer me in the style of my friend’s poem; one that means a lot to me. Inputting his work alongside directives around dismissal, denial, love and rejection toContinue reading “Tamsyn Challenger: ‘Rubbing’, ‘ChatGPT standing in for you’, ‘In Fill Trait’, and ‘Very Bye’”
Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell): ‘LIFTS FROM THE SOIL BIRCHES’ and ‘SITTING HEART SPACE (CUBIST)’
Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) is from Fife and lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens. She works primarily from the bodily felt senses, then plays with sound and rhythm, producing finally what she hopes are places with enough space to live, breathe and play in. She calls her visual / topographical poems BodyscapesContinue reading “Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell): ‘LIFTS FROM THE SOIL BIRCHES’ and ‘SITTING HEART SPACE (CUBIST)’”
Michelle Dyrness: Untitled
Michelle Dyrness Michelle Lynn Dyrness is a visual artist based in California. Recent publications include a limited edition visual poetry chapbook, Square Confits, Overground Underground Books, 2022 and Midnight Grotesques, a collaborative book with Tristan Foster, Sublunary Editions, 2024. She works across mediums and frequently explores the ways different methods of making inform one anotherContinue reading “Michelle Dyrness: Untitled”
Nikolai Galen: ‘Twain’, ‘Moral compass’, and ‘Repentance’
Twain the dead are deadprematurely wiped outhomes put together piece by piece – wiped outthe dead are mournedthe maimed are given prosthetic limbsthe bereaved are consoledthe losses mount up like mountains,what took ages to build is in moments destroyedand lifetimes are in moments curtailed and lives destroyed lain waste, vast waste, a terrible waste,morality, resources,Continue reading “Nikolai Galen: ‘Twain’, ‘Moral compass’, and ‘Repentance’”
Jacob Louis Beaney: STATES OF BEING/TYPES OF THING
TYPES OF THING EverythingNothing STAGES OF FRUIT UnripeRipeOverripe POSITIONS OF A LIGHT SWITCH OnOff PEAS How many frozen peas are in a bag?Should I count them?No.Some things are better not knowing. THE OFFICE Everyone who comes into the office has a limp.The security guards are all exactly 5 ft 3 inches tall.There are three clocksContinue reading “Jacob Louis Beaney: STATES OF BEING/TYPES OF THING”
Terry Trowbridge: Garlic Mustard You Must Learn to Fight Each Year
Kindness can be conflictual.Learn to pull garlic mustard up by the roots.Remember: violence is no solutionwhen the enemy is alleopathic.The soil remains poisoned with cyanide,sinigrin, a slew of glucosinates.Still, remember, the soil remains.This memory will maintain your purposefulness. Leave the ground be, after you’ve weeded.Time away from your hands is essential.Killing is not victory. Instead,learnContinue reading “Terry Trowbridge: Garlic Mustard You Must Learn to Fight Each Year”
E. N. Díaz: DYSPHORIA
I’m not interested in metaphor;I’m interested in light. I sucked him off in front of the mirrorresting beneath the open window. He cursed,staring straight ahead, face dripping sweat. I looked over my shoulderand saw a stranger staring in. He parted his hairy cheeks for me.His pink crack with spit glistened and ruststained his cleft. TongueContinue reading “E. N. Díaz: DYSPHORIA”
Amy Merigo: Il Giglio e Lo Specchio/The Lily and The Mirror
Amy Merigo Amy Merigo is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Helsinki, Finland, with a background in fine arts, moving image and curatorial studies. Her practice intertwines visual art, experimental film, and text, and stems from a fascination around perception and generation of meanings. Her work often meditates on memory and ecology – theirContinue reading “Amy Merigo: Il Giglio e Lo Specchio/The Lily and The Mirror”
Claudia Wysocky: “Health and Safety”
There have been plenty of times when I had to fight for my life. Sometimes it was for my “health and safety”, sometimes for happiness. I fought for what I could not bear to lose, but I lost all the same. I can still recall the taste of all those defeats, as bitter as unripeContinue reading “Claudia Wysocky: “Health and Safety””
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