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Sep 17, 20241 min read
Wax Sink By G
I have to put candles in my sink when I shower, the light is broken I’m too scared to tell the landlord  I avoid what is good for me I...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
THE EULOGY WRITER TAKES REQUESTS By Beth Edwards
LET ME BE THE ZEITGEIST OF THE TESCO EXPRESS // AND COMMISSION MY PILOT FOR OUT OF WORK CLOWNS I AM THE GENDERQUEER ICON OF THE BELL...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Sunshine By Daniel Searle
I’m out without a coat for the first time this year The sun is warm on my face,      baking on my back, It’s glorious. For fifteen...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Waiting In The Stars By Lucy Cross
Do not feel down because I have departed as I’m up here getting the party started. I'm blasting our favourite songs on Neptune and...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Ruckus By Joseph Marshall
I hide in the kitchen close to the boiling kettle for its soothing din to overwhelm my ears so the slamming doors and abrasive words are...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Poet Mugshot By William Burrows
his appearance should be as an albino in a white room barely in phase with the light his staccato commas barely at metaphoric rest.
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Night Out In Glasgow By Meron McCardle
handing pieces of my soul to people on the streets dragging my heart along the footpath racing to catch the bus fumes belch into the air...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
On Bucket-Kicking (after Keats', 'When I Have Fears') By Shuayb Mohammad
Sometimes I wonder whether I will kick The bucket in the middle of the day— You know, you've got somewhere to go and tick Tock, time is...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Intrinsically Femme By Ryan Hatton
Roses are red, white and pink shades of cheek-warmth brimming. “But, you can’t wear that-you homosexual, Stick to the bluebells, you nail...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Neglected By Thomas Caton
Although conditioned to empathise, a vindictive streak interrupted him triggering the worst of his qualities. He’d wanted to create...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
If You Let Me By Ben Cant
You began dusting your eyelids with the edge of your thumb and asked me if your liner was smudged. Â With that I knew I would ruin you if...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
I Couldn’t Marry You. I’d Be Baked Fagri By TropicGirlKay
The summer heat was stifling my skin was raining on its own even between my breasts  rainy season fruit had all dried up I was left...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Heartbreak Toad By Sumayah Yaseen
The first tadpole I had, died in two days. I was distraught. So of course I caught another one. Â Called him Tad-Too-Small, A mouthful,...
Sep 17, 20242 min read
How to be Human: A Beginner’s Blueprint By Zoha Khan
1. Arise: Shake the lingering caress of sleep from your eyes and flail your limbs poetically toward the ceiling. Feel the creaking of...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Day Infinity By Carter
one day after another, I’m getting it all together– the clatter of empties in a bag, avoiding neighbours and the landlord man, there's...
Sep 17, 20241 min read
15 Seconds By Arun
I will be on the 6pm news they will use my graduation photo from 2018, bronze smile, soft sides, hues in my eyes that’s how my mother...
May 25, 20241 min read
Sheets By Max Goodman
I need to be wrapped. Tight. In the white-starched sheets Of a funeral parlour. I’ll lay Silent and still With small wet breaths....
May 25, 20241 min read
Your House, Without You In It By Katie Beswick
‘The silence was heavy with eternity’ (Rose Tremain, Sacred Country) The room vibrated an empty sound, My fingers brushed the thin new...
May 25, 20241 min read
Surgeon Simulator By Fly Adams
I’m your online operator. A ‘surgeon simulator’ if you will. A single, white-gloved finger eradicating earthly ills. Specimens on my wall...
May 25, 20241 min read
Seasoned Impudence By Cat Cattington
Compressed thumbs numb Tucked between Chair arms and thighs Numbed dead like The amygdala of my brain. He who pressed his groin Against...