"There were never no back-going / once it gone, it gone and no / point remembering something / no body for..." Hannah Linden's first home community in the North of the UK was demolished as part of a slum clearance programme.
Joshua Calladine-Jones is the literary-critic-in-residence at Prague Writers' Festival. His pamphlet of poems, Constructions, which features "Four Konstrukce," is to be published by tall-lighthouse in 2021.
Yuan Changming's writing has appeared in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and Best New Poems Online, among other journals across forty-six countries.
"in the military, they screwed up and took my X-ray twice, back to back, had me leave the room and then sent me right back in and when I came out, they said, 'You didn’t just take his X-ray again, did you?'..."
"...look out your / window at that rock shaped like horses’ teeth and the clouds that slowly pass by / Remind me of dirty tiles, that they really should—really should—clean..."