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The streetcake innovative writing prize is open for submissions until September 20th! We caught up with streetcake editor, Nikki Dudley, to find out more about the prize, submissions process, and mentoring: What is the streetcake innovative writing prize?  streetcake is an online magazine that specialises in experimental/innovative poetry, visual poetry and short fiction. The streetcake innovativeContinue reading “STREETCAKE INNOVATIVE WRITING PRIZE”

Susie Campbell Susie Campbell is currently researching Gertrude Stein, prose poetry and spatial form for a practice-based poetry PhD at Oxford Brookes University. Her poetry has appeared in magazines, anthologies and visual poetry exhibitions. Her other poetry books include The Bitters (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), The Frock Enquiry (Annexe, 2015), ‘I return to you’ (Sampson Low, 2019) and TenterContinue reading “Susie Campbell: Extract from Enclosures”

*Leaves and seeds of the Lunaria and letraset Kate Siklosi Kate Siklosilives, writes, and thinks in Dish With One Spoon Territory / Toronto, Canada. She has published five chapbooks of poetry, has two forthcoming collections, and is the curator of the Small Press Map of Canada. Her critical and creative work has been featured in various magazines, journals, andContinue reading “Kate Siklosi: Lunarian Libation (for bill bissett)”

Black human eyes, wet and rockingin their nests of dry grass.The white moon is not a symbol,the moon is a coin they pass aroundand around. So, their blue tongues and handsgrow tired of making to her their signs,they recline into the earth, who spits them up againas grass.The blood is a red beadwhere the tipContinue reading “Cat Woodward: Under the light of the moon a lone rabbit passes through the graveyard of poets”

Earlier this year, SOBER magazine invited me to write an essay for their blog, HAIR OF THE DOG, to explore the avant-garde’s relationship to intermedia. I began to look at different origin myths of language alongside the recorded history of writing. On looking at the Book of Enoch, I was reminded that the fallen angels, among other things, taught metallurgy. WhenContinue reading “Richard Capener: The Enochian Alphabet”

Digital collage – asemic writing in pencil and ink on printer paper, scanned and merged with digital elements using Apple ‘Keynote’. Asemic writing based on text collaged from lines found in “Ninth Street Women” by Mary Gabriel (Pub. Back Bay, 2019); chapter 37, ‘At the Threshold’. The text used was as follows:I have to beContinue reading “CD Boyland: Smc_Threshold1”

DUNGENESS: EARLY 2000S The lighthouse is some horn and the beach is big and sleeping and cold blooded;grey sky grey sea black beach like reptile skin and the lighthouse is a horn. There are the shells of ships turned over for winter and a royal coast guard tea shop.I wonder who they go out toContinue reading “Lotte Mitchell Reford: Selected Poems”

Composer Hildegard von Bingen was given to the church at the age of 8, where she became an anchorite and then the abbess of a new monastery. Although it is unheard of for women to compose their own music at this time, Hildegard attributed her creations to the visions of God, rather than to herself.Continue reading “Amanda Hodes: Selected Poems”

Kali Richmond Kali Richmond lives in the North of England. Her poetry has featured in various publications, including Gutter, The Babel Tower, Green Ink Poetry, Coven, Jaden Magazine and Porridge. Her debut pamphlet, Gradual Reduction to Bone, is out this summer with Nine Pens. 

Karenjit Sandhu Karenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. Her debut poetry collection young girls! is forthcoming with the 87 Press (2021). Karenjit’s poems appear in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021), Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020) and Nemeses (HVTN Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in Magma in collaboration with Ryan Ormonde (2020), as well as online at Murmur Reading Series (Monitor Books, 2021), Digital Poetics (87 Press, 2020), Junction Box (2020) and DATABLEED (2019). Her performanceContinue reading “Karenjit Sandhu: Goddess Anuket”