Cat Woodward: Under the light of the moon a lone rabbit passes through the graveyard of poets

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”

Richard Capener: The Enochian Alphabet

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”

CD Boyland: Smc_Threshold1

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”

Lotte Mitchell Reford: Selected Poems

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”

Amanda Hodes: 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”

Karenjit Sandhu: Goddess Anuket

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”

Caitlin Stobie: Extract from Jealousy Experiment

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: Recipe

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”