APPLES DON’T GROW ON TREES, YOU KNOW.
Writing: Polly Burnay I once shrieked this in a moment of pure fury at my sister. She had thrown away an apple core, which – yellow,...
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Mar 15, 20205 min read
‘Killing and Dying’
Writing: Albertine Clarke On the seventy-seventh day of our trip, I noticed that Jason was trying to kill me. There was nothing that...
Mar 15, 20204 min read
'Adam'
Writing - Charley Rose Jones The ghost of the man that I once knew visited me today. I was at work, halfway through making a coffee...
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Fear
Writing - Becky Bishop-Ashton Illustration - Yizhi Liu Time seems to have abated Its endless plod For a brief instant, and I am...
Jan 17, 20205 min read
The Desert
Writing: Albertine Clarke The landscape within which you chose to build our house was not my first choice. Robbed of nutrients by the...
May 22, 20195 min read
‘It Should Be Announced that Metal Can Burn’
Writing: Lucie Vovk It was small and unassuming, yet when the building burned down, Mother searched frantically through the rubble, her...
May 22, 20194 min read
'Juxtapositions'
Writing: Vaishnavi Ramu Illustration: Paola Valentina When I stepped onto what would be a nine hour flight from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro,...
May 22, 20191 min read
'Blue-Tack Stains'
Writing: Jess Cowie Illustration: Isi Williams Yesterday a photo fell From the blue-tacked, bric-a-brac Collage I’d stuck beside my bed...
May 22, 20192 min read
'Goldfish'
Writing: Lucie Vovk Illustration: Abbie Featherstone Cities are forgetful creatures: They inhale lovers and exhale street corners On...
Mar 24, 20192 min read
A poem for myself, age 12, sat by herself in the toilet after her period bled through her white tutu
Writing: Phoebe McGowan Illustration: Hazel Laing You were stood in the wings, gelled back bun and static electric nerves, waiting for...
Mar 23, 20191 min read
daytime sleeper / ruminations 2 / ruminations 4
Writing: Beth Davison Illustration: Paola Valentina CW: These poems contain discussion of mental illness and suicide. (daytime sleeper)...
Mar 23, 20191 min read
'From an Unsent Letter'
Writing: Anonymous Illustration: Erica Zaja CW: This poem contains discussion of mental unrest. I buried my feelings in the barren crags...
Feb 16, 201911 min read
The Orchardist
Writing: Lucie Vovk I remember your hands. Every image of you in my mind has blurred (your eyes were green or maybe grey), but your hands...
Feb 16, 20193 min read
On New Year's Resolutions, and dread.
Writing: Phoebe McGowan Illustration: Isi Williams The New Year, to me at least, seems to be the worst time of year for everyone. We open...
Feb 16, 20192 min read
'Near- Perfect'
Writing: Christopher Henson This is not a superstition, But in the dissection of male self-image, As a Christopher, I face an inordinate...
Feb 16, 20191 min read
'Leaving a Place'
Writing: Reuben Fox McClure Illustration: Hazel Laing Leaving A Place by Reuben Fox McClure, aged 20 n a bit Thoughts from the 10:15...
Feb 16, 20192 min read
A Poem in Response to 'Regeneration' by Henry Vaughan
Writing: Kirsty Thomson Illustration: Petra Wonham When Vaughan wrote regeneration, he discussed a spiritual enlightenment mainly to do...
Nov 24, 20182 min read
'The Road to Beach'
Saturday, 24 November, 2018 by Writing: Jess Cowie I wrote this after reading the poem 'The Way Through the Woods' by Rudyard Kipling;...
Oct 20, 20182 min read
'Messages from my Mother'
Writing: Zainab Mohsin Illustration: Zainab Mohsin I was talking to my mother about my first year as a student in Edinburgh when I was...
Oct 20, 20184 min read
'The Linguistic Privilege Gameshow'
Writing: Robbie MacLeòid Illustration: Emily Donnelly Language, and particularly the power dynamics of language, is a theme I’ve been...
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