Blog • 18th November 2020 Nell Whittaker: 'Charity Shop', an excerpt "...so many items of clothing, books, presents I have now forgotten I gave, so many failures among the successes."
Blog • 2nd November 2020 Alex Murphy: 'What's the Point?' Vignettes and reflections on philosophy and progress
Blog • 26th October 2020 Mathilda Oosthuizen: 'Ersilia: Excavating the (In)visibility of Objects' "There is a value and a danger in not being recognised, witnessed, acknowledged."
Blog • 19th October 2020 Call for Submissions to Issue 5: 'Presence' The Still Point is calling for submissions to 'Presence": our fifth print edition, to be published February 2021.
Blog • 12th October 2020 Gertrude Gibbons: 'Monologue of a Violin' A woozy, beguiling prose poem, written from the perspective of a violin.
Blog • 28th September 2020 Hester van Hensbergen: 'Mirror Displacements 1969/2020' "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..."
Blog • 21st September 2020 Brendan Commane: Fadings "Smashed pots, broken glass, empty chambers can be repaired and filled. Fadings cannot be restored, refurbished, revived or resolved."
Blog • 24th August 2020 Jordan Mitchell: 'Gas' "We drove to Walmart. None of us had ever been to a Walmart before."
16th August 2020 Dan Bird: On Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater, and Anthropos as whiteness "Future agents will be able to look at the sedimentary strata of the planet and highlight the influence of Homo sapiens, geologically. But what conception of “the human” does Anthropos refer to?"
Blog • 10th August 2020 Fabian Broeker: 'Presence: Call Me By Your Name' "In Call Me By Your Name the camera is embedded in the filmic world; we can feel its presence."
Blog • 3rd August 2020 Rose Higham-Stainton: ‘Colette—Mirror-Play’ “They function like sharp inhalations—these concentrated, cut down versions of our lives that don’t demand we redecorate, unpack our boxes, bed in, but float on the perfumier's tails.”
Blog • 13th July 2020 George Millership: Review of Jing Su, 'Give' Su's video art warps and fragments the body, facing down the medical gaze
Blog • 6th July 2020 Kamila Iżykowicz: '2m' "I was 2 many / too many times distanced / from you my nature"
Blog • 29th June 2020 Jess Payn: 'On Telegraph Hill, 2019' "You visit a sunset to watch yourself shrink. You imagine its stillness might displace your sense of stuckness."
Blog • 22nd June 2020 Fiona Glen: 'Unseemly Figures' "Against the teal, sealed mermaid tails, your tentacles flail in vaudeville skirt flicks; they crown an orifice liberally, speaking a leakiness. Self-enchanted shapeshifter, if you can take any figure, this one must mean home to you."
Blog • 15th June 2020 Anna Parker: 'Life Below Ground Level' "Looking downwards reveals a sunken cultural world that provides a unique perspective on the way we live."
Blog • 8th June 2020 Imogen Cassels: 'You met me at a very strange time in my life' "Grief opens up your constructedness-by-others. You met me at a very strange time in my life, and so now you make me up, and I still don’t know who either of us are."
Blog • 1st June 2020 Harriet Thompson: 'So the Light Turned' "What do you miss most? A cold pint perspiring in the sun on a sticky pub table. Weaving through a crowded street."