Surrendering — Tilda Butterworth
"Already I can curve my ribs over the water-sculpted edges of this place."
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- Jun 30, 2022
Oscillations — Nafsika Stefanidou
"Nobody can predict us — not the weather forecast, nor the space agency..."
- Mar 31, 2022
Fugue — Dominic James
"Smokeblue, your eyes pearl over – silken sculpture, lips sewn / Shut. Unheard confessions stain that train."
- Mar 29, 2022
Transfiguration — Sarah Adegbite
"I could see him frantically writing himself / into her unfinished novel."
- Mar 28, 2022
the tenth day of lent, of fasting and abstinence — Mina Marelica
"nothingness is creation, Dionysus tells"
- Mar 27, 2022
7pm, Moscow — Hope Nicholson
"I leave the country the next day and wonder whether American films will be forbidden."
- Mar 25, 2022
Two kissing girls at her avenue — Renée Eshel
"Still is the frame of us, breasts out, carcass feet, heads lolling backwards, four dead daffodils."
- Mar 21, 2022
Horse Girl — Ana Tomic
"As a foreigner in Germany and someone whose early life was influenced by war, (...) I often wonder if I had a normal childhood."
- Mar 20, 2022
Sleepwalking To Awakening — Aylin Derya Stahl
Confessions from a time when there seemed to be no threshold of tomorrow.
- Mar 17, 2022
On purchasing Layli Long Soldier’s most recent poetry collection from a Waterstones bookseller
Delilah Dennett —
"I am indigenous. He is white. Yet it is his tears that splatter the pages."
- Mar 2, 2022
minchinhampton — Iz Maxwell
"i still think quite often / about that afternoon in your garden / eating oranges in the sun"
- Feb 23, 2022
Foxes and the Bacchanal — Iz Maxwell
"I remember how you stared at me / Amongst all that broken glass and wine; / And how I held my hand out, bleeding"
- Feb 18, 2022
Spring cleaning — Sieve Bonaiuti
"But, you see, sadly I cannot juggle, / and two eyeballs are quite heavy things to hold in a palm"
- Feb 13, 2022
A shared moment halved — Famke Veenstra-Ashmore
A poem about a moment of confession, where everything changed.
- Feb 10, 2022
lacing a song — Lucas Neutelings
The work revolves around notions of language-encryption, memories of nursery rhymes, word-plays and word-textures.
- May 29, 2020
Cold Spell — Archie Hamerton
"I asked my mother / If she would try again / Replant and reseed"
- Apr 22, 2020
bodyflesh on a metal frame — Emily Yelverton
"I want to be hard shiny plastic / covering a molten metal core."
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