A woozy, beguiling prose poem, written from the perspective of a violin.

In this episode of The Still Point podcast, we showcase some of our recent creative writing.

Five illustrations by Carys Howells, the London-based graphic designer and illustrator who will be designing our fifth print edition.

"The landscape is a cold equilibrium. There is a thick white sky over dunes of mottled pebbles intersected by a series of hard shards of glass. The shards are mirrors, patterned out along the stones and charting a path into the distance..."

By reconstructing and re-imagining the relationship between desire and space, Lunhua Kong’s photography explores femininity and the Oedipus complex in Chinese family culture.