Author Archives: Cat Chong

道成寺 Dōjō-ji    After a picture from the Dōjō-ji Engi Emaki depicting a     woman who has turned into a 40-foot serpent I died and was reborn, but nowI feel more alive than ever.My scaly flanks wrap aroundthe large bell, cold surfacenot warming to my cold bloodheart. Why is he so afraid?I’m in a rage. LustContinue reading “Maya McOmie: 道成寺 Dōjō-ji”

Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell) Fianna is from Fife and lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens. She works primarilyfrom the bodily felt senses, then plays, producing finally what she hopes areplaces to live, breathe and play in. She calls her topographical poems Bodyscapesand / or Fieldworks.

A Prose Poem Book Review of Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin2 ‘fire with my two tonguesLoose’– Terrance Hayes, ‘American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin’You say the odour of your breath / can be assassinated (p. 17). I have stuck my nose in / and tried to reconstruct /Continue reading “Daniel Hinds: A Prose Poem Book Review of Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin”

Abu Ibrahim Abu Ibrahim popularly known as IB is a socially conscious Nigerian poet whose work has caused tremendous influence and change. In 2021, he was part of a group of poets who advocated that the Recording Academy made spoken word poetry at the Grammys and this led to the birth of the “Best SpokenContinue reading “Abu Ibrahim: We Know What Terrorism Is”

those who left usstill accompanyin peripheralsjust outside range perceptibleMuybridge, persistence of vision peeling white barn on hillits one dark eyeregards me plaintivelywhat frontage roads lead toCremation Society classical renditionof Madonna’s material girlfits right into antiquity,wigs and sequinslayer cake and macaroons cherry blossoms decomposenourish the grass feeds the lambsthat afterlife is certainand splendiferous,giddying even from curbcuffedContinue reading “Jerome Berglund: Montage Theory”