Claudia Rankine

‘Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue’

Solmaz Sharif

‘To step out of my door and hope to see something like a life, something passably me.’

Ida Börjel

‘You know about my / emotional drinking, and my night walks and my / fragmented heart-to-heart conversations.’

Issue 119

Jamie McKendrick

Tishani Doshi

‘If you need proof you’re alive, regard the oar / in your hand.’

Maureen N. McLane

‘They party in the woods / as if they were meant for pleasure / not timber.’

Holly Pester

‘I went to Ilford alone / was handed a white laminated square’

Issue 108

James Schuyler

‘what did you think of, / how long did you wait’

Issue 152

Rachel Long

‘Behold the miracle of afro hair.’

Issue 124

Rachael Boast

Issue 126

Aracelis Girmay

‘Please stay with me as I / replay the last touch.’

Issue 115

Gillian Allnutt

‘We waited quietly for the Queen who wasn’t there’

Tishani Doshi

‘Remember when we were / young and the end was a black hole at the edge of forever, / a million light years away.’

Cortney Lamar Charleston

‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’