“At the apex of joined forewings/Is an exaltation.”
Category: Poetry & Fiction
[Review] Slaughter by Rosanna Hildyard — Daunish Negargar
“Hildyard brings a nuanced perspective to both the realities of farming in the United Kingdom and female sexuality, as contradictions are not skimmed over, or resolved, but rather relished and dissected like a bloody carcass throughout this dark tale”
[Fiction] Orts — Meghan Murphy
“Inside this house there is no letting go.”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Fiction] The Roundhouse — Elena Lo Presti
“From that moment onwards, I see lights appearing inside The Roundhouse’s rooms: it is almost like, after discovering its rotating secret, I have broken the enchantment that kept its guests invisible, safe from my gaze.”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Poetry] Moment in Landscape no. 3 — Georgina Watson
“In this moment,/Looking at the photograph,/I am in the same position now as I was then.”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Fiction] Portals to Eternity — Rieko Whitfield
“You are blissfully shrouded in only the present – one day you may not remember where you came from at all.”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Fiction] Seven Sentences from Seven Horses: A Performance on Page — Jennifer McMillan
“We are a fairground ride, am I the only one who knows, who has realised that all we do is go round and round?”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Fiction] Apple Blossom Sky — Laura Moreton-Griffiths
“I have eight weeks before the changes are noticed. In eight weeks I can do a lot of damage. For a little while, the materials will not be missed and my nano sabotage will go undetected.”
Published in partnership with Everything Forever, organised by Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
[Fiction] The Doubting Disease — Oskar Oprey
“I suffer from acute anxiety and OCD, but I prefer the old Victorian term for my condition: the doubting disease.”
[Poetry] — Peter Donnelly
“At these minor garden parties,/Wind lushes and lashes/Through tended-to bush/Gusts across tennis courts (the nets slap/And billow); Ford Fiestas at the perimeter/Unmoved by all of this.”
[Poetry] — Maia Joy
“The brightness melts my insides/into something that more resembles/a Salvador Dalí painting than/anything earthly”
[Fiction] In Search of Blue — David Roberts
“Past the hospital, through once grand streets. A short walk across almost waste ground to get to that place where the machines slept their clockwork dreams.”
[Poetry] — Phillip Shabazz
“Someone/who loses himself for the damp word of promise/where smoke rolls upward from a Pall Mall.”
[Poetry] — George Rawlins
“I stalk a weakening current, a mirror/to wandering, tracing faint verse/into sediment just/below whitewater.”
[Review] The Year in Books 2020 — James McLoughlin
“In need of some levity, I ran my finger along the spines on the shelf and, naturally, plucked out Heart of Darkness.”
[Fiction] Rare Old Primate — Brent Crane
“At the time of the heist, the lemur was thirty-two years old.”
[Poetry] — Adam Houle
“You can’t tell / if the snow is fresh, a god-sent snow, falling / or if it’s just wind-lifted, old snow come again”
[Poetry] — Adam Tavel
“Carter gazes at a thousand shadow treasures / he’ll loot to catalog in haughty solitude / until the war, until his cancer comes.”
