ABOUT THE BOOK Landsick, Genevieve Carver. Available here. Published by Broken Sleep Books. MICROREVIEW BY TOM ENGLAND Landsick has its germ in Carver’s own immersion in the Yorkshire coast, her collaboration with marine biologists at the University of Aberdeen, and affinity with the North Sea. It’s obvious that Carver takes this kind of poetic fieldwork seriously. ButContinue reading “Review: Landsick by Genevieve Carver”
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Ed Roffe: An Octopus Changes Colour in its Sleep which Indicates that it May be Dreaming
Ed Roffe Ed Roffe’s poetry has been published in Lighthouse, Dear Reader, and the anthology, A Personal History of Home, edited by Jennifer Wong. He recently concluded his MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University, and continues to live and write in the city of dreaming spires while working at the city’s other university.
Lauren Sheerman: the cult of Saint Mary Magdalene self-seed
the cult of Saint Mary Magdaleneself-seed the beginning in the flower bed as everything anxiousgrows flowers, fruits fracture and listening to cucumbers growingin the heat from the cold tiled floor. the sound of growthis clear light beating through the window and peeling yourselfoff the kitchen floor. Lauren Sheerman Lauren Sheerman (she/her) is a poet, interdisciplinaryContinue reading “Lauren Sheerman: the cult of Saint Mary Magdalene self-seed”
JP Seabright: extracts from ‘An Attempt at Exhausting a Critical Essay’
This exhalation will foghorn on Jeanette Winterson’s boomerang Wroth On The Bogeyman. It was puddled in 1993, and is desensitized as a ‘wormwood of fiddly’, perhaps the most accusatory way of desensitizing a wormwood that tries to breastwork away from the conversationalist Novocaine formication. It has no cleavage deflation ploy, the chrysanthemum strut being pre-shrunkContinue reading “JP Seabright: extracts from ‘An Attempt at Exhausting a Critical Essay’”
Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Kraków – København
boarding the plane jeg forstårthe hubbub of the languagenot yet quite familiar my Polish faltershvad hedder det?what’s that? the glottal stop the in-drawn jaand the mental nodof partial recognition shift an accentby one notchand anotherlanguage nudgesitself intothe intonationof this flight Note:An early version of this poem, called ‘Riga – Copenhagen,’ was published as part ofContinue reading “Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Kraków – København”
Andrew Nightingale: ‘The spider encapsulating absence’ and ‘An edge tarantism manifesto’
Andrew Nightingale Andrew Nightingale grew up in West Cornwall and studied microelectronics in Manchester. He now lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and works for an animal protection charity. His most recent pamphlet is “Denizen Disease” (Red Ceilings, 2022).
Review: purge fluid by Ivy Allsop
ABOUT THE BOOK purge fluid, Ivy Allsop. Available here. Published by Hem Press. MICROREVIEW BY AODÁN MCCARDLE In the first poem ‘Jonah in a benthic one-hander’ the narrow form of the text on the page issqueezed: language such as ‘palate’, ‘ammonia’, ‘nuchal’, ‘uvula’ ‘peeling wad’, ‘roof blubber’ tangibly overwhelm the reading mouth. The sudden intervention of aContinue reading “Review: purge fluid by Ivy Allsop”
Megan Cannella: If It Plays in Peoria: A Glossary of Midwestern Survival
cw: drug use asking, Bathroom? verb meaning I want to fuck meaning ya got any drugs meaning I need to cry meaning wanna go talk shit about this bitch meaning did ya see who just came in,Continue reading “Megan Cannella: If It Plays in Peoria: A Glossary of Midwestern Survival”
Review: a fondness for the colour green by Charlie Baylis
ABOUT THE BOOK a fondness for the colour green, Charlie Baylis. Available here. Published by Broken Sleep Books. MICROREVIEW BY JAYD GREEN From the outset, a fondness for the colour green offers a bright glittering kaleidoscope to the reader. The poems oscillate between a deep frustration and a willing silliness. The page is not serious, and fewContinue reading “Review: a fondness for the colour green by Charlie Baylis”
Robert Sheppard: Circle of the City: following in the steps of Chapter Five
As they moved from Lime Street…a vision of Leningrad was still super-imposed upon Liverpool in his mind’s eye. Malcolm Lowry, In Ballast to the White Sea no ‘flags’ left: cobblesswirling around the unfencedNelson edifice: CHANGE LAGS Death peeps out, hoodedskull: it chilled Redburn everytime: but the cannon points Empire’s precisemachinery straight at you:the chainsContinue reading “Robert Sheppard: Circle of the City: following in the steps of Chapter Five”
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