ONE POEM – Louise McStravick

Make the water rearrange its insides,
shift shape as it is told,
steam rise
drip drip vinegar,
sour the water to not let things stick.

COMFORT FOODS // My Mother’s Sweet Halwa — Sheena Hussain

The pots and pans of childhood stir me.

TWO POEMS – Elizabeth Stott

We made the heads of Styrofoam
so not to be too heavy on their frail necks.
Hearts? Simply-fashioned, from lumps of stone.

On Appearance: Disordered eating and the body, Kelsey Osgood’s ‘How to Disappear Completely’, and how language makes illness appear to us — Lizzie Hudson

An exploration of the impact of literature about eating disorders on readers. TW: Discussion of eating disorders and self harm.

ONE POEM – Katherine Fallon

Finding them dead on returning from vacation,
she flushed her six African Cichlids.

ONE POEM – Jonathan Chadwick

The last three nights, I dreamt I was a sail
Lifted, swept and thumped from here to there.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Circus – David Rodríguez

“There’s a certain sort of artifice in my work and the way I use light and scenes because my lighting creates a kind of dreamscape.”

ONE POEM – Elizabeth Wilson Davies

The unconsidered diaries of family life fall open at once favourite recipes,
bittersweet imprints on the page of stained, smeared, sticky memories.

Smälting Pot – Elinor Potts

Bellies lined with pyttipanna, we refill our water bottles and stride home from the city centre towards Block 5.

ONE POEM – Poppy Frean

listen
words pass overhead
spoken broken in dialogue slang where South
is said “SOUF”

COMFORT FOODS // While You’re Still Here – Yasmine Jessy Amr

You scribble on a piece of paper, pausing every two minutes to remember. Your memory isn’t what it used to be. But you try anyway. 

ONE POEM – Ogedengbe Tolulope

We sing the songs filled with sadness,
Songs with lyrics written in silence