Cat Chong

Daniel Hignell: extracts from ‘…as a process of line-making’

Daniel Hignell Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully is an artist, writer and researcher, whose work explores participation, experimentation, and the relationship between sense and sensation. Often striving to locate avant-garde practices within everyday contexts, he completed a PhD in 2017 based around the utility of text as a means of ‘scoring’ everyday creativity. His academic writing hasContinue reading “Daniel Hignell: extracts from ‘…as a process of line-making’”

Sadiq Abdulsalam Adeiza: The Pod

An affair revealing what is set to ripen it carries;kindness austerity or not or not. Lines will split open of dehiscencewhat was once will come to life, dormantagain, willingly as in a resurrection or not. Buried seeds to germinate; are prayers waitingcotyledons ascending parting the waves of loam soilsheavenwards of gratefulness. as folded palms Do not let silence be mistaken for neglect.The wheels ofContinue reading “Sadiq Abdulsalam Adeiza: The Pod”

Lucy Edmunds: space dust

i want to burn bright with the stars the issue at hand:a star givesi take. forget your compliments after i swallow thembite off more than you offeredchew for months on end. i just want to shinebut light could never come near meit isn’t faster than my gluttony.crack it between my teeth and taste itfizzling out.Continue reading “Lucy Edmunds: space dust”

Jeehan Ashercook: ‘If the shoreline’ and ‘If the salt-line’

Jeehan Ashercook Jeehan Ashercook is a poet from Edinburgh currently undertaking a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Her poems explore the ocean poetics of drift, movement, and journeys and have appeared in various publications including, Gutter, BlueHouse Journal, IR11’s Heat pamphlet, Poemeleon, and All Becomes Art: An Anthology, with others forthcoming. She won firstContinue reading “Jeehan Ashercook: ‘If the shoreline’ and ‘If the salt-line’”

Lake Angela: ‘The Birth of Savior Hawk’, ‘Votive’, ‘Heterodoxy’, and ‘Haruspex Δ↭’

VotiveThe figure of God’s Mother appears to mein plastic, in miniature. What does it meanto be fleshless, to be permanent? To beunable to bend or to move on your own.Then the dog of fire kisses my eyes open.His gentle tail betrays the Son of God unfolded:multiplied; God was schizophrenic, like me,multiple, like me. That wasContinue reading “Lake Angela: ‘The Birth of Savior Hawk’, ‘Votive’, ‘Heterodoxy’, and ‘Haruspex *Δ↭*’”

Courtenay Schembri Gray: Drunk on the Brine

Drunk on the brine, my lover is a large pot of apocalypse soup. Beauty is a sad-mouthed, despair-eyed albacore. The throbbing of constellations wrecked upon my mind. I am overboard for this metamorphosis, ready to be raptured. Source: [When the Beloved Asks, “What Would You Do If You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?”Continue reading “Courtenay Schembri Gray: Drunk on the Brine”

Jim Lloyd: ‘Common Scoter (12th April 2021)’ and ‘Redwing (21st March 2021)’

Common Scoter (12th April 2021)There was a light wind from the west, and it was cold for the time of year – minus two degrees with a little light snow falling; sunset was at 20:05. Between 22:00 and 23:00, above the noise, I heard series of simple soft and rhythmical whistles: pyu – pyu –Continue reading “Jim Lloyd: ‘Common Scoter (12th April 2021)’ and ‘Redwing (21st March 2021)’”

Austin Miles: ‘Data visualization’, ‘traces that resemble’, ’emerald ash borer script’, and ‘entangled and infinite’

Austin Miles Austin Miles is from southeast Ohio. He is the author of the chapbook Perfect Garbage Forever (Bottlecap Press) and has poems published in Landfill, Sip Cup, and elsewhere.

James Croal Jackson: This Vestibule

& within this vestibule the sighing & side-glances,demands for just-asked-for jackets, & axes dealtto execs in their excess, & star-born nephews needingvalidation; & on this thin strip of wooden walkway,in the gaze of dead deer, a floor air bubble that shocks& wilders passers-by who have walked upon it onethousand times, beside the gunshots on television(freeContinue reading “James Croal Jackson: This Vestibule”

Marzia D’Amico: extracts from ‘The exact stellar science behind.’

Being alone isn’t the only option.All I ever wanted to have and didn’t know is in you.I love the way we talk away the dooming politics of the so called real worldthe way we wave to the darkest traits we inherited as loomsfrom the families we were born into and intertwine our songs for betterContinue reading “Marzia D’Amico: extracts from ‘The exact stellar science behind.’”