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fixtures
Elliot reflects on lost lovers and those who have slipped soundlessly from their life.
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Your other girlfriend, the moon
Grace Shelley pens a short story of love, yearning and an elevator to the moon.
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The L Word
‘The L Word’ explores the journey from yearning for external validation to discovering the power of self-love, framed through tender, lyrical imagery.
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forgetting
‘forgetting’ from Liberty Armstrong is the struggle of falling for a bad person but they’re your best friend and all you know so you can’t let go.
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Love Poetry (canal & cutis)
Meander Farrow writes about appearance, reaction, and truth in two love poems born from gazing at their partner across her gender transition.
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in every other universe
bram casey writes on his learned refusal to change himself for others, found through falling for someone who had no clue what he wanted.
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Jodie Comer Reads a Love Letter from Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
This villanelle from Mary Craigg is for everyone. From the people who enjoy reading horny letters between long-dead Modernists, to those left aggrieved by that terrible ending to ‘Killing Eve’.
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tradie girl winter
In this poem, Rebecca Lester gives you an amalgamation of three loves lost—two former partners, and herself. (Disclaimer: she has never been a tradie.)
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carmilla brings us home
Freya Turnbull is totally normal about vampires. ‘carmilla brings us home’ travels through ‘deviant’ desire and sinks its teeth into queer love just in time for Halloween.
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1v1 SNOG
Skyrim, sub bottom thots and Cuba Street metaphorical fireworks blend together in a 1v1 SNOG from poet Devon Webb.



