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Wendy Allen: Unreliable Narration in Prague

Did we split up in Prague? We spent a night in that weird hoteldo you remember? where our room, and the hotel gym,were accessed by funicular, and you knew I didn’t like heights and the smellof the incline made me swallow bile andyou told me you’d fucked R the night I saidI wanted a babyContinue reading “Wendy Allen: Unreliable Narration in Prague”

Mike Ferguson: politicians lie

Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson is an American permanent resident in the UK. His recent publications include the found prose poems collection The Lonesomest Sound (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019), the truth-elusive vignettes And I Used to Sail Barges (The Red Ceilings Press, 2020) and the found poetry collection based on philosophy texts &there4 (Beir Bua Press, 2021).

Sarah Cave: extracts from ‘Read the Red’

‘Who gave me language?’ asks Alice. Cookie Monster Nietzsche shrugs carries on eating cookies. Elmo Tolstoy begins: ‘Early maps of Alicia denote creative process seenthrough the gap between shirt buttonsand noted as responses to marginalia, impressionist taprootsshredded by arrows, doodles, hoes becoming lecturers’notes, prose fragments, spiralling patterns and haphazardfootnotes.’ ‘I am what I’d call a practisingContinue reading “Sarah Cave: extracts from ‘Read the Red’”

J. R. Carpenter: the trees

for Christine Stewart starting. to do some thinking.about trees. and the light they inhabit. the corners they round. the hills they climb.the ridges they crest. the winds they break. and the way. some are for display.and some are for hiding behind. thinking. also. about trees.and their doubling. shadow trees. wall trees.water trees. trees of pureContinue reading “J. R. Carpenter: the trees”