Chitra Kalyani — Excerpt: A series of poems trace the body—breasts and spine, eye and tooth—reconciling it with its nature: physical, biological, mortal.
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The Meta-Eco in Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God
Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.
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A Joycean Romp through Belfast: Hanna Nielson’s Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?
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Bismillah by Peter Cat Recording Co. — A Life Lived Between Drift and Surrender
Deepanshu Premani — Excerpt: Bismillah is not an album that sits quietly in the background. It creates a space and pulls the listener into it.
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Rachel Turney In Conversation with Samantha Terrell
Poetry doesn’t wait for life—it was right there with me, battling alongside me through a tenuous and vulnerable time. And I’m grateful for that.