Michaël Vidon: Sir

Sir like certainas if i know-it-all and you nothingcurt and curtailingbut truth is i’m uncertain Sir like surrenderif i’m too assertiveit can be a disservicelike you can’t be discerning Sir like certifiedblue ticked and verifiedSir like surveillanceMister Muscle on the surface i’m no Sir to youi’m no serf to the systembut i’ll serve if i’mContinue reading “Michaël Vidon: Sir”

Nam Hoang Tran:  ‘Guiding Echoes’, ‘Feast For the Eyes’, and ‘Evening Meeting’

Nam Hoang Tran Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist based in Orlando, FL. His work has appeared in Posit, The Brooklyn Review, Word For/Word, New Delta Review, Always Crashing, Diode, and elsewhere. More at www.namhtran.com.

Dan Power: ‘Terminally Online’ and ‘Walking simulator’

Terminally Online for @volvicstorm98 The absolute nerve of these trollstelling me to “screenshot time” –4 hrs sleeping, 8 hrs working,12 hrs rotting in bed…we all live in it. What I had ASSUMED though wasur just seeing the worst version of humanity.At the end of the day I was deluding myself.There’s no grass left to touch,I’veContinue reading “Dan Power: ‘Terminally Online’ and ‘Walking simulator’”

M P Pratheesh: TRAIL OF SILENCE

M P Pratheesh M P Pratheesh is the author of several collections of poetry and essays in Malayalam. His poetry and art can be found at various places including The Portside Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Guftgu, Indian Literature among many others. He was awarded Kedarnath Singh Memorial Poetry Prize in 2022. His recent publications include Transfiguring Places (Continue reading “M P Pratheesh: TRAIL OF SILENCE”

Daniel Hignell: extracts from ‘…as a process of line-making’

Daniel Hignell Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully is an artist, writer and researcher, whose work explores participation, experimentation, and the relationship between sense and sensation. Often striving to locate avant-garde practices within everyday contexts, he completed a PhD in 2017 based around the utility of text as a means of ‘scoring’ everyday creativity. His academic writing hasContinue reading “Daniel Hignell: extracts from ‘…as a process of line-making’”

Lucy Edmunds: space dust

i want to burn bright with the stars the issue at hand:a star givesi take. forget your compliments after i swallow thembite off more than you offeredchew for months on end. i just want to shinebut light could never come near meit isn’t faster than my gluttony.crack it between my teeth and taste itfizzling out.Continue reading “Lucy Edmunds: space dust”

Jeehan Ashercook: ‘If the shoreline’ and ‘If the salt-line’

Jeehan Ashercook Jeehan Ashercook is a poet from Edinburgh currently undertaking a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Her poems explore the ocean poetics of drift, movement, and journeys and have appeared in various publications including, Gutter, BlueHouse Journal, IR11’s Heat pamphlet, Poemeleon, and All Becomes Art: An Anthology, with others forthcoming. She won firstContinue reading “Jeehan Ashercook: ‘If the shoreline’ and ‘If the salt-line’”