out February 1st 2023
Issue 4 is finished and available for pre-order in the shop.
A Midwinter poem by Ceinwen Haydon Revived by Erithacus Rubecula A bright-eyed robin flies ahead. Stops; hops along newly-strung barbed wire. He keeps a few feet to the fore; feathers fluffed, foiled against December’s frost. Red-chested, brave, he joins me, warms my spirit on this drear, mid-winter’s day, short on hours, long on anxiety. Fractious, I cannot see what future awaits me. Caught between waning powers and ardent desire to achieve: compose and write. Words turn, wriggle, squirm like worms within my mind. Shush. He perches, beak open and carols the sweetest,melancholic song. Ironically, my self-indulgent despair slinks away, sinks in pondwater, iced with clarity’s fragile crust. My red-breast companion makes our moment all there is. He or I might die before nightfall but until the end, locutions birth beginnings.
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Contributors to Issue 3
Claudia Recinos Seldeen
Victoria Gartner
Affly Johnson
Andrew Kaye Kauffmann
Desiree Seebaran
Suzi Mezei
Lani O’Hanlon
Olivia Payne
Rosalind Moran
Abby Ledger Lomas
Rebecca Green
Nora Studholme
Lee Zumpe
DB Jonas
Christine Grant
Annie Peter
Charlotte Dormandy
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Sarra Culleno
Jessica Bundschuh
Ciara Patricia Langan
Anna Marie Young
Kevin Brown
Diana Raab
Peter Clark
Laura Patricia Braverman
we’re featuring All of This Unreal Time, written by Max Porter and directed by Aoife McArdle.
A dramatic and immersive film installation by Aoife McArdle, first shown at the Manchester International Festival it was nominated this year for Best Narrative Short at Tribeca. All of This Unreal Time was born from conversations between Max Porter (Author of ‘Grief is The Thing With Feathers‘) and Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) about different themes of honesty and performance; the conversations grew organically to become something else. A poem, a film, an apology, an installation, it is transmutative.
We follow an unnamed man expressing his thoughts and regrets, dressed in a black hoodie through deserted city streets at night and into the fields as dawn breaks, bringing hope.
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