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Image description: Michael, clad in a patterned shirt and a beret, smiles for the camera. In a crowded corner of a high street coffee shop on a cold January afternoon, Michael and I eventually had the opportunity to sit down and catch up, after initially having to postpone this long-awaited conversation. “I’d be more than […]
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Image description: LGBTQ+ pride rainbow colours textured as crinkled paper “Flower children” – Alice Watkinson you are not stunted there is no need to arch and bend and fold and crease cup your bruised knees and stop repenting for you are an extension of the world and the air repeats itself through you you’re […]
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Image Description: Kuli Kohli performing at the British Museum, 2019. Forming part of our ‘Womxn on the Move’ series is poet and creative writer, Kuli Kohli. I first came across her in a recent BBC article which described her story about the challenges that she has faced as a disabled woman and how her poetry […]
Continue ReadingIn Vanishing Lung Syndrome, Czech poet Miroslav Holub’s vision is both microscopic in focus (as fitting for an immunologist) and geographically wide-ranging. I recommend this collection, translated by David Young and Dana Hábová, as much for its imaginative scope as for its alertness to surprise and paradox. Holub’s poems embrace the publishing houses and madhouses […]
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