Cole Denyer: Three Poems
"Karl-Marx Grave labubu dolerem | in my linear city"
Still Point Issue 8 Launch
27/10/2025
Helena Aeberli: The Caryatid Manifesto
"How can the artist re-create the caryatid, who volunteers herself willingly for pain, passively smiling beneath her heavy weight? . . . How to free the caryatid from her immanence, her servitude? Her marble-flesh paradoxical putty, an offering, an Othering, the serenity of her Mona Lisa smile. How to armour the armless to carve her own angel free?"
Tom Branfoot: from 'That x is not a given'
Excerpts from a new long poem by Tom Branfoot.
Austin Spendlowe: Russet Yeas and Honest Kersey Noes: Imogen Cassels and Sonnet 94
Austin Spendlowe reviews Imogen Cassels' much-fêted debut collection.
Alex Keramidas: A Poem in Two Parts
"I’m a girl scout searching for the new stuff - | living underneath you I melt away."
'Why am I not always in a meadow of flowers?': Seán Hewitt in Conversation with Elmos Andrews
"I think that I increasingly think of myself as a writer. People often want to say a poet that wrote a novel. I think that if you write a novel, you’re then a novelist – I think that if I hadn’t written poems before, I would be a novelist. I take each form on its own terms, and so writer seems to cover what I do, which is write books."
Luke Dunne: Subjunctivity
A review of Maureen N. McLane's My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
Ben Philipps: Two Poems
"Euclid did it: in that white silence his rod alone | moved in dust, scraping unimagined forms."
Alex MacDonald: Two Poems
"Is this not death: a paper peony, | cut and stuck against a midnight?"
TC Mangan: A Feast of Tongues
"(Toto, we’re not in London any more)"
Ian Macartney: Three Short Stories
"All roads led to the web of London – it was an uphill battle to unthink that and so many other assumptions about the capital."
Katie Mulkowsky: Casserole People
"There were other signs of the surreal that week, and they were all somehow marked by eating."
Kimberly Campanello: from This Knot: A new version of Dante Alighieri’s Commedia with the poet K
"We know this mountain inverted like we know our own guts."
Medha Singh: Two Poems
"A pall of incense crawls / through rooms brushing gently, against / smooth faces at the altar. We absorb soft / pauses amid the swish, the song..."
Ed Cooper: Listening with Annea Lockwood's Rivers
Ed Cooper explores ambience as recorded soundscape by way of Annea Lockwood's River Archives Project.
Poetry & Fiction Showcase: 3 June 2025 @ The Cock Tavern
George Reiner: Two Poems
"is this birth? cloud break light shafting through thin chords. I think killing is high pitched in its savage simplicity, in its either/or —"
David Spittle: Two Extracts from HALLUCIGENIA
David Spittle debuts two sections of his new long poem-in-progress.
Rosa Appignanesi: Salome Salome Salome
Rosa Appignanesi explores the manifold figurations of Salome in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture, touching on both queerness and commerce.
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