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.
Joseph Rizzo Naudi: 'Goose Woman Cat'
"The photograph was in black and white, but mostly it was in shades of grey, as
far as I could see."
Matilda Sykes: 'Seen and Heard'
Matilda Sykes reads Denise Riley's "Composed underneath Westminster Bridge" as a "hidden elegy".
Tymek Woodham: 'Side Effects May Include'
"helpless | humming dust clouds into the effervescence | of a death shroud"
Lu Rose Cunningham: Three Poems
"I ask you to consider lethargies and then a history, repeating itself."
First published in Issue 7.
Catherine Kelly: Three Poems
"Remember the bomb at Miss World?"
Will Fleming: Three Poems
Three poems from our editor-at-large.
Antony Rowland: Two Poems
"Yachts stick the bois | and a swan necks its promenade, while you | get ready, twice."
Patrick Christie: 'Searching for the Golden Age of Higher Education'
Patrick Christie investigates the idea of 'a golden age of higher education' in campus novels of the post-war period.
Devki Panchmatia: Two Poems
"It’s like butter in my hands, he says smiling. | It’s like money."
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