Dom Hale: 'For the Ones That Care'
A new poem from Dom Hale
Filters & Sorting
Izzy Stuart: In defence of working less on your PhD
PhD students are more at risk of burnout than ever. Let's discover the radical potential in being proud of procrastination
Morgan Jones: Reproductive dystopias and the world after Roe v. Wade
For a glimpse of what happens next, don't read Margaret Atwood—read Sally Rooney
James Goodwin: 'STAR BRIGHT ICE'
New poetry from James Goodwin
Will Ballantyne-Reid on Derek Jarman's THE GARDEN (1990)
Jarman's film echoes and embodies the breakdown of boundaries, bodies, and identities so intrinsic to the impact of the HIV-AIDs crisis
Tom Crompton: Poems
New poetry from Tom Crompton
Mannika Mishra: 'Tailbone', an excerpt
"Rabbit skin is like water, my hands are made so gentle for it."
Cora Chalaby: 'To Flood' - Lynda Benglis' Contraband.
This article considers explores the relationship between formal, material and conceptual confrontation in Lynda Benglis’ Contraband (1969).
Will Burns on Anna Mendelssohn and lyric pedagogy
Hard to instrumentalise, indeed, to justify, poetry may offer a means of speaking between disciplinary identities
Morgan Jones: 'Kind of cool, but not really' - Fascism in Succession
HBO's satire treats fascism with a knowing wink. But when you're so far in on the joke, are you really joking at all?
Ella Bucknall: Writing memoir in comic-strip format
Combining biography, visual art, literary history, and narrative non-fiction, Ella Bucknall traverses two centuries in the history of a family pub
Connor Harrison on John Fowles’ 'The Tree'
A ‘forest’, though it can be imitated in words beautifully, is outside of language. ‘A forest,’ John Berger wrote, ‘is what exists between trees.’
Sam Weselowski: Excerpts from 'Triple Rainforest'
Sublime sludge and murky pastoral in two new extracts from a UK-based Canadian poet
Sarah Fletcher: 'A Slap In The Face… of Nature'
Joshua Mcloughlin: Sidney's 'Stuff' - Poetry, humanism and masturbation
An indecent essay on self-love, 'stuffe,' and the raw materials of Renaissance poetry
Fintan Calpin: Two Poems
Two new poems from our last print issue: 'Gnomon' and 'Wear and Tear'
'Solidarity Over Sympathy': Catherine Kelly on the UCU Strike
By withdrawing support for the strike, UCL and KCL student unions have shown a troubling misunderstanding of the severity of the crisis in higher education
Esmee West-Agboola: 'Part Two'
"As we speak, I am cutting stitches where the fabric gathers
the reckless shades of an undefined blue, blood filtered orange,
demon-green, and that mindless beige that lingers like a staring child."
Roddy Howland-Jackson: 'footloose'
A short, claustrophobic poem about language and the body
Inés Garcia: 'Grief Embodied'
On psychoanalysis in a second language, body language, and grief
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