Cardinal we are crouching overa rabbittrying to discernthe cause of death tangle of innardsbrocade of purplespleen hot breathof flesh crampedcentipede of thesmall intestine the dashed cardinalof its open throat indigo-soaked andsteaming runic my tongue lying heavyin my mouth squeezing musclesin sequence the sound of grass and violettearing from the tap-root Blood Count the cold ofContinue reading “Jane Hartshorn: ‘Cardinal’ and ‘Blood Count’”
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Scott Lilley: sonnet simp
to begin, and no matter how deconstructed the form, in a collection of sonnetsit is somewhat unavoidable that the reader may expect to interpret a love poem. What I mean by this is that said love poem may not necessarily be some overtor passionate elucidation rather may contain yearning, an object of desire, the whimContinue reading “Scott Lilley: sonnet simp”
Piero Toto: Trade Lite
the 55 to Clerkenwellbears bodies I don’t needcrouching at the backthey ask why sad, cherie?you love me like Diana Rosson summits I can’t reachat Xmas here I swapa crown for tortoise dustwhile queens dance& vogue asking~?the lights crawl back upto whisper turn aroundlet’s walk me backgoodnight I typeblue ticksremember me todaymy mother slumpedin dreamsplastic wakesContinue reading “Piero Toto: Trade Lite”
Joe Marsh: Glebe Cow Monologue
GLEBE COW: if – upright –gotta start moo own statemoo polyglot statelick it from ice (drools) if only oronly if – or –parse? the moo fieldherd the moochainprove moosengot plans – may₿huh? (drools) state is as it used to ₿ (drools) coulda ₿nsellin at Sothe₿ston grand of eth – oo ooover the moon ormooin thatContinue reading “Joe Marsh: Glebe Cow Monologue”
Michelle Dyrness: extract from ‘Night for Day’
Michelle Dyrness Michelle Lynn Dyrness’ work as a visual artist explores methods using accident, intuition and the suggestive revealed in the unexpected. She has exhibited extensively, and is a frequent collaborator across disciplines, exploring the ways image and language inform one another. Recent publications include Square Confits (Overground Underground, 2022), individual imprints from So WentContinue reading “Michelle Dyrness: extract from ‘Night for Day’”
Lydia Unsworth: Walk Around Town
fairy lights rock from the street lightsin a curled windwe thought we’d see starsbut they’ve gone and done thiswrapped a rough blanket round our knees we cried in the direction of the seathe black on black water slap slap slap in my faceyour presence like a hand on my hard hearta push in the chesttheContinue reading “Lydia Unsworth: Walk Around Town”
Aodán McCardle: an extract from ‘small increments’
Aodán McCardle Aodán is a painter, poet, ex:gardener/tattooist, he has delivered babies warm in the dark and wrapped the dead in white hospital cotton. He is a co-editor at Veer Books. His PhD is on Action as Articulation of the Contemporary Poem though physicality and doubt are the site of meaning and the stance respectivelyContinue reading “Aodán McCardle: an extract from ‘small increments’”
Colm O’Shea: an extract from ‘[Untitled]: (a meditation)’
Week Two.– There were rabbits here last night, I tell her, here in the garden. Three. Three rabbits, all around the same size, adults, I think. They came out in the evening, right around now, possibly a little earlier. They stayed around for a while and disappeared again. – They might be waiting for usContinue reading “Colm O’Shea: an extract from ‘[Untitled]: (a meditation)’”
Wendy Allen: Unreliable Narration in Prague
Did we split up in Prague? We spent a night in that weird hoteldo you remember? where our room, and the hotel gym,were accessed by funicular, and you knew I didn’t like heights and the smellof the incline made me swallow bile andyou told me you’d fucked R the night I saidI wanted a babyContinue reading “Wendy Allen: Unreliable Narration in Prague”
Mike Ferguson: politicians lie
Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson is an American permanent resident in the UK. His recent publications include the found prose poems collection The Lonesomest Sound (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019), the truth-elusive vignettes And I Used to Sail Barges (The Red Ceilings Press, 2020) and the found poetry collection based on philosophy texts &there4 (Beir Bua Press, 2021).
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