Poetry Michael Arthur’s poem renders the emotional space after love as a desolate wasteland littered with lost artefacts, a shadow place. Maps of old familiar territory Dead leaves blowing Swirling in a dusty corner A single songbird bursts forth melodically I open that first edition you gave me And read again Entranced by the familiar …
Prose Presenting a window into life with autism Daniel Kearns’ short fiction ‘ Phone Call’ offers sensitive insight into neuro-divergent experience. CW: Neurodiversity (autistic character featured) The day was bright and sunny, a few small clouds dotting an otherwise clear blue sky, a fewbirds flying past while singing to one another. A cool, subtle breeze …
Poetry Marka Rifat uses a visit to a river as a metaphor to explore anxieties around the climate crisis by musing on the transience of nature. The metaphors are running dry: you can step in the same river twice, indeed, as often as you fancy, if you like standing in the shaming dust of drought. …
