Author Archives: brihughespoet

Caitlin Stobie Caitlin Stobie was born in South Africa and lives in the UK. Her writing has appeared in SPAM, Streetcake Magazine, Tears in the Fence, Tentacular, Zoomorphic, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Leeds Arts University and is an editorial assistant at Stand. Her debut poetry collection, Thin Slices, is forthcoming with Verve Poetry Press in 2022.  

Godefroy Dronsart Godefroy Dronsart is a writer, teacher and musician currently residing near Paris. His poetry and sound work has appeared in Twin Pies Literary, Paris Lit Up, the Babel Tower Notice Board and Postscript among others. His first chapbook The Manual is out through Sweat Drenched Press and explores the space between poetry, prose,Continue reading “Godefroy Dronsart: Recipe”

We are feeling giddy today – our first publication, Lydia Unsworth’s Mortar, is now available to preorder on the Osmosis website! Scroll down for a preview of the collection. Mortar is a limited edition of 100 copies printed on 100% recycled paper. Each copy will come with a limited edition Mortar promotional bookmark or aContinue reading “MORTAR: PREVIEW”

Michael Black Michael Black is finishing a PhD at the University of Glasgow, on Virginia Woolf and William Blake. His work in progress writing is most easily accessible online via the poetry journal and forum, Adjacent Pineapple. He was included in an anthology edited by Colin Herd, made for the centenary of the poet Edwin Morgan,Continue reading “Michael Black: Sodastream”

A Review of ‘and we were so far from the sea of course the hermit crabs were dead’ by Lotte Mitchell Reford Briony Hughes is a AHRC funded doctoral researcher and visiting tutor based at Royal Holloway. She is interested in kinetic movement in language, water bodies, the archive, and site-specific writing. Briony’s publications include Dorothy (BrokenContinue reading “‘You are so full of spit and blood and it is moving so fast’: Briony Hughes”

Note on the text: Bartholomäus Traubeck has invented a method of using a laser to play a tree’s rings as unique digital music.http://traubeck.com/works/years Jinny Fisher Jinny Fisher lives in Glastonbury. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online magazines, including Lighthouse, Tears in the Fence, Prole, and Ink, Sweat & Tears, and in 2019,Continue reading “Jinny Fisher: Ash Music”

A Review of three Salò Press chapbooks Josh Allsop is a PhD Creative Writing Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Durham University, where he is writing on the idea of difficulty in the poetries of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne. His poetry has been published in Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Birmingham, The Babel Tower Notice Board,Continue reading “‘crying with unsurety’: Josh Allsop”

The early-eightiesMiquel Barcelós was en vogue, I couldn’t have knownUncle Barry’s squiggly sketches, there was no pretension involvedThe family ‘artist’Auntie Kikue by his sideSuch colourful eyesHis regular birthday greetings;I suppose art was manifoldBut it was printed on Mum’s apron The mid-eightiesIt’s Grandpa’s birthday, to Edgware we goPristine tatami matsAn offer of slippersEgg and cress, choppedContinue reading “Andrew Kauffmann: I couldn’t have known”

A Review of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland Saskia McCracken is a writer and editorial advisor at Osmosis Press. She is completing her doctoral research, on Virginia Woolf’s Darwinian animal tropes, at the University of Glasgow. She is interested in environmental and generically unstable writing. Saskia’s debut pamphlet, Imperative Utopia, isContinue reading “‘no straight path through the universe’: Saskia McCracken”

Richard Carter Richard A Carter is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Roehampton. Carter is interested in examining questions and issues of agency, whether framed as human, nonhuman, or more-than-human, as they manifest within digital art and literature – considering how these generate insights into what it means to perceive, to articulate,Continue reading “Richard Carter: Excerpts from Swipe”