My name is Alex Glynne and I live in Cornwall, where I work as a tutor and psychoanalyst. Previous work has appeared in Ambit, SPAM, Perverse and as part of the Earthbound pamphlet series. 

These are some sequences and miscellaneous pieces I have been working on over the last year or so

These poems are all concerned with a kind of experimental poetics and the idea of language as unstable and inchoate. Collectively, they meditate on many things: childhood shame, longing, desire, the breakdown of a friendship, jealousy, journeys by boat and train, the colour blue, the painting of a wall, the memory of a dream, sinkholes, coffee, caffeine, rhizomes, adolescence, beauty, sadness, fallibility, work, failure, London, the city, skies, rain, Depop, InPost lockers, shopping centres, poetry, emptiness, Prozac, etc. etc. 

Amy Hodder Tempest is a writer and poet based in south east London. She did a BA in English at the University of Sussex, before going on to complete an MPhil, also in English, at Cambridge. Her own writing often falls somewhere in between verse and prose, and has been published in various publications. She is currently working in a bookshop. 

As the non-world falls away was written out of scanned images of Scourti’s notebooks, converted into digital text and collaged together on their phone. 

Written in English and Greek, the poems explore labour, gentrification, mistranslation, living in linguistic and cultural in-betweens, gender becoming as well as feeling states of desire, yearning and (occasional) hope. 

The images included are created in the same way as the texts and echo their material and form, acting also as breaks/ gaps between poems.

For some there are every, for some there are none is an attempt to reconcile several things at once. I spent time thinking about the tangibility of one's own dimensions and problems, and how this rubbed along with (or against)  communal and political despair. Reading it back, various motifs are there: something about gods, something about ghosts. I think there's a bit of Samuel R. Delany and M John Harrison in the mix. In short, it's about grievability, pasted in a plain text mode. 

This work contains sections from a longer manuscript, begun in October 2023 during the most recent genocidal campaign in Palestine. The 'origin' poem is forthcoming in Pamenar Press's online journal. Each section follows a procedure to disfigure the work. “Disfigurations 2” is a transcript of a constraint-based voice recording of “Disfigurations 1”. “Disfigurations 4” is the result of a machine translation of “Disfigurations 2” from English to Arabic to English to Arabic to English. Dedicated to those who have died and those who continue to fight for a free Palestine.

Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist, mental health caregiver, and publisher living in Buffalo, New York. Their works include the long poems BESPOKE (Saint Andrew’s University Press), ANTIKYTHERA (antiphony), and a forthcoming work of political aesthetic theory, OINTMENT WEATHER: INSURGENT POIETICS AMIDST DESPERATE TIMES (CLOAK.wtf). They operate Blue Bag Press. 

Jennifer Soong is the author of poetry books Comeback Death (2024), Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (2022), and My Earliest Person, forthcoming with The Last Books in 2025. Her critical monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting is also forthcoming this spring with the University of Chicago Press.