Katherine Collins: The Bacchant Woman is a Painting
Bunches of grapes for earrings bunched up bedsheets twistedclenched in a bunch of knuckles sore like haemorrhoids shamefulbunch of grapes (an awkward side effect of pregnancy) wobblyglobules, droplets from each lobe make blotches on her nakedbreasts with nipples painted over is that modest, women, allbut cover faces if hers is covered it’s with arches archedContinue reading “Katherine Collins: The Bacchant Woman is a Painting”
Dan Power: from the Oulipo Puzzle Book
Dan Power Dan Power is a poet and editor of Trickhouse Press. His most recent collections include late morning (Broken Sleep/Legitimate Snack, 2022) and the surreal post-internet adventure SELECTED DREAMS (Steel Incisors, 2021), as well as pamphlets with If A Leaf Falls and Spam Press. The first issue of ‘The Oulipo Puzzle Book’ is out from Trickhouse Press in SpringContinue reading “Dan Power: from the Oulipo Puzzle Book”
James Gale: A Field
The flat is dark and grimy. Your room receives no sunlight. The sky is dank and lowand murk and it grinds to a halt because everything grinds to a halt. It is impossiblethat anything could have ever been anything other than this, or will ever be anythingelse. You can see for miles across the field,Continue reading “James Gale: A Field”
Carolyn Hashimoto: [SKIP]
Cow skips. Cow farts. Cow receives the semen of a prize bull. Cow says fuck this. Cowtakes a walk. Out of the barn, out of the farm, onto a residential street and comesacross a city. Cow can’t imagine. Cow can’t imagine there’s a place like this. Cow walks [she will learn to skip later, butContinue reading “Carolyn Hashimoto: [SKIP]”
Birgit & Ursula Wildt: Ophelia goes missing
Birgit & Ursula Wildt Birgit Wildt (writer) is published in Overground Underground, The Pomegranate London, NUNUM, Wanderlust, Reflex Fiction, Die Leere Mitte, Litro. Ursula Wildt (artist) is featured in Overground Underground, NUNUM, Art Room, Margate Bookie Zine, Grey Cube, Envision Arts, A.R.T..
Birgit & Ursula Wildt: Camps
Birgit & Ursula Wildt Birgit Wildt (writer) is published in Overground Underground, The Pomegranate London, NUNUM, Wanderlust, Reflex Fiction, Die Leere Mitte, Litro. Ursula Wildt (artist) is featured in Overground Underground, NUNUM, Art Room, Margate Bookie Zine, Grey Cube, Envision Arts, A.R.T..
Jinny Fisher: How to Get to Carnegie Hall: Violin Version
Jinny Fisher Jinny Fisher lives in Glastonbury and is a member of Wells Fountain Poets. Print and online appearances include Lighthouse, The Interpreter’s House, Under the Radar, Domestic Cherry, Tears in the Fence, Prole, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Her poems have been commended and placed in national and international competitions, including as runner-up inContinue reading “Jinny Fisher: How to Get to Carnegie Hall: Violin Version”
Bethany Mitchell: Hide
Stillness in the reedbed, still—the unseen heron’s-kin. The stealthy bill; thesilent wading. Secretive on water’s edge. No buff, broad body, no bowedwings on the bush-border ledge. Such bitterness—but then: wind blown over glass-bottle neck: bull of the bog’s booming call. Butea + taurus: hawk-bull: butorius, Botaurus. Low—slow—breeze bitten five kilometres away.The bullish call of theContinue reading “Bethany Mitchell: Hide”
Iain Britton: Hung Up
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: touch typing speed test
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”
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