Kerstin Jump – Editor’s note: As part of our recent collaboration with Bath Time magazine, we could only submit one poem. However, it felt wrong not to publish those that didn’t make it, so we wanted to present you with…
Megan Johnstone and Kerstin Jump – Editor’s note: We were lucky enough to get in contact with Bath Time magazine over at the University of Bath to give our respective poets the theme of life in our different university towns.…
Christopher Cross - For most people, it could be considered a thoroughly miserable day. The clouds that darkened over the forest had encroached over the village. A heavy scent of petrichor swamped the market; this had alerted them to the downpour that had soon befallen the vendors...
Kerstin Jump- The concept behind these poems is transformation. The first poem specifically talks about transformation of identity and location. The second poem explores transformation in terms of memory and people after death, physically and imaginatively. The third poem looks more…
Kerstin Jump- The conceptual leaning for these three poems is technology, specifically the act of typing on laptops, in relation to communication and literature. ‘Ctrl.end’ has a fixed rhyme and meter, ‘Dial, alone’ is an attempted Villanelle and ‘sea pebble’…