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hung up by threads of luminous particles these eyes fossilised in rocktransfix the visitor to the jawline of a hill – yet no church sings no choir praisesi turn to a coded farewell practice that you should react to the wind’s howlingits free-spiritedness where once i called your daughter to live in the same paddocksameContinue reading “Iain Britton: Hung Up”

Roy Duffield Roy Duffield is the art editor over at Anti-Heroin Chic and a winner of the Robert Allen Micropoem Contest (2021). He somehow managed to con a first in creative writing out of Bath Spa University, and has even had the gall to return to the scene of the crime, this time in the skin ofContinue reading “Roy Duffield: touch typing speed test”

J.I. Kleinberg J.I. Kleinberg’s visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.

Alicia Byrne Keane Alicia Byrne Keane is a final year PhD student from Dublin, Ireland. Alicia has a first class honours degree in English Literature and French from Trinity College Dublin and a MSt. in English Literature 1900-Present from Oxford University, and is currently finishing an Irish Research Council-funded PhD study that problematizes ‘vagueness’ andContinue reading “Alicia Byrne Keane: Too late in the year for winter-gods”

Alex McKeown Alex McKeown is an Australian poet, translator, playwright and software engineer. His work has appeared in Australian outlets such as The Canberra Times, Southerly, Cordite and Island, and overseas with The Pi Review, Black Scat Review, Blue Unicorn, and Penteract Press. A selection of his published poems and translations can be read on his website, alexmckeownpoetry.com

Nikki Dudley Nikki is managing editor of streetcake magazine and also runs the streetcake writing prize and MumWrite. She has a chapbook and collection with KFS. Her pamphlet ‘I’d better let you go’ is out with Beir Bua Press. She is the winner of the Virginia Prize 2020 and her second novel, Volta was publishedContinue reading “Nikki Dudley: What You Cannot See”

Emma Filtness Dr Emma Filtness is a queer, disabled poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University London where she teaches and supervises on Creative Writing BA, MA & PhD programmes, with a focus on poetry, interdisciplinary and experimental praxis. Follow her on Twitter @Em_Filtness & @poetrycoterie

R.M. Francis R. M. Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. He’s the author of two novels, Bella and The Wrenna, published with Wild Pressed Books, and a poetry collection, Subsidence, with Smokestack Books. In 2019 he was the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at the UniversityContinue reading “R.M. Francis: Wyvern”

Genevieve Carver Genevieve Carver is a writer and performer whose poetry has been published in journals including Mslexia, The White Review, The North, The London Magazine, Magma and Poetry News. Her first collection, A Beautiful Way to be Crazy (Verve Poetry Press), was based on a gig theatre production in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist live band The Unsung celebrating female experiences inContinue reading “Genevieve Carver: Conch”

There are people in the garden. A man, a woman. A girl, a boy. I’m nakedagain. I’m in my own garden but I feel ashamed. I crouch behind an azalea,pretend to pick its dead heads. They amble up to the house with small gifts.A pie. A bottle of homemade lemonade. Rachel invites them in whileContinue reading “Mark Russell: ‘#8: Dance’”