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pews and pleas and pearls and please
Emma Morrison worships women like God, aka Sapphic Catholicism guessed at by someone who’s never been in a church.
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Liam Jacobson’s Anti-Gentrification of Poetry
Devon Webb chats to Liam Jacobson about their debut poetry collection, ‘Neither’, finding inspiration, spoken word and getting involved with Dead Bird Books.
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1.5 to 5mls
Damien Levi would like to apologise in advance to anyone who looks up the sculpture that inspired this work. It’s a lot. Yeehaw cowboy.
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Ancestors in Museums
Moana Murray writes across the ocean, to ancestors held against their will in foreign lands who were taken unwilling.
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Little Creatures
In ekphrastic form Jackson McCarthy revels in the procession of creatures revelling in Fiona Lee Graham’s ‘Nature’s Calling’.
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narcissus by caravaggio, oil on canvas
When you have this much in common with someone, loving them is really loving yourself twice. Sometimes, it’s okay to fall into the water.
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Ways of falling
A visual poem unearthed and reinvented, ‘Ways of falling’ by Sherry Zhang is “a poem is about the tension between the kind of tender familial love I grew up with as, the juxtaposition with it’s conditional performance with conservative filial piety expectations.”
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le lit
For FRAMED! Kyra Lawler gives us a poem through the sleepy, warm and comfortable eyes of two women tucked up in bed.
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Possum fur nipple warmers
Becca wrote this poem about the possum fur nipple drawer statue because omg look at it why wouldn’t you write something about it.
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Aubade
An attempt to re-romanticise the morning after. Or at least accept that ‘horny’ has a time limit which doesn’t always make for good epic poetry.
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Cows Over Vitebsk
This poem draws inspiration from not just one painting but Marc Chagall’s broader depictions of “anthropomorphised” animals, particularly cows, and the blurring of the human and non-human that they represent.”
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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