27th April 2026

Relentless Momentum: Daniel Lefferts in conversation with Joe Prendergast

"I like to create moments in which the monstrosity of my characters breaks through and despoils the immaculate, artificial surfaces they try so furiously to maintain."

20th April 2026

Dom Hale: Five Poems

"confessing how Id give all this away | for two thorn hearts that fly in time"

13th April 2026

Alexandra Chand: Extract from (dreamings)

"To relate to Kngwarray’s art, it is necessary for the viewer to understand the sorts of replications, reiterations, and resubstantiations of the Dreamings she undertakes in the landscape around her [...]"

7th April 2026

Elena Rotzokou: Two Poems

"My knees feel briefly uncertain, | as if standing on ice | that may remember it is water." 

Blog • 27th March 2026

Misha Honcharenko: Lyric Risk: On Fanny Howe

"For decades, Howe was recognized as a poet of holy disorientation and exacting conscience—a writer for whom bewilderment was not a weakness but a spiritual method. With this final gathering of writing from the last thirty years, she does not curate a retrospective. Instead, she composes a last interior movement, a turning inward that feels less like summation than distillation."

Blog • 20th March 2026

Phyllis Konieczko: "At Dawn"

"Fatal words. Cruel destiny. Why, oh why did she ask the boy to accompany her to her chambers? Did she not know that the male sex causes naught but havoc and should best be kept in cages?"

11th March 2026

Lola Gabellini-Fava: A Question of Essence

Had the entirety of Woolf Works kept this creative distance from its source, I might have come away from the performance with a sense that Woolf had been granted some kind of poetic justice. Yet in edging closer and closer to its point of reference as it went on, the piece ends up ironically silencing the very thing it seeks to both celebrate and animate.

2nd March 2026

William Kherbek: Three Poems

"It was always just | | An affectation, you say, portending something while delivering | The lowest feasible return"

22nd February 2026

Jacob Burgess Rollo: Four Poems

"This is what I say when, really, I want to hold you | like a vigil, in which nobody actually touches"

16th February 2026

Henry Broome: Wrapping wrapped in wrapping

A review of COOP: A Novelette (2025) by Nida Sajid.

6th February 2026

Olivia Calderón: Three Poems

"the rusty return | of a love divine."

26th January 2026

Karl O'Hanlon: from Herron's Dream Diary

"Dalí in a diving suit, lecturing in flamboyant Catalan, | grasping two borzois and a billiard cue"

19th January 2026

Joanna Pidcock: The Doom Squad

"People who work with or in AI seem enthralled by it, and in conversation are often breathlessly delighted by its possibilities and awed by its power. As such an assumption is often made that other people will also find it interesting."

11th January 2026

Sarah Fletcher: 'Life, friends, is boring—’

"John Berryman’s speaker is relatable in his short attention span. Nothing can snag his interest. He acknowledges the greatness of the physical world: ‘the sky flashes | the great sea yearns’. He has been told to touch grass and found it no more green than he had hoped."

14th December 2025

Ellen Dillon: Six Poems

"I wanted to coil those entrails at your feet for anthropomantic | purposes, but you were watching football"

8th December 2025

Nick Bartlett: Knowing One's Place

A review of Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework (2025).

3rd December 2025

Monica Kam: l o s t

"In wet clothes we drove through Paris." Reprinted from Issue 8.

24th November 2025

Helena Aeberli: The Teller and the Tale

Helena Aeberli reviews Thea Lenarduzzi's The Tower (2025).

19th November 2025

Ruby Lawrence: Two Poems

" Inhale sorrow, composted | with apricots. Blame less the apples, falling early."

10th November 2025

The Lure of Space: Imogen Cassels in conversation with Will Burns

An interview with the poet Imogen Cassels, from Issue 8