

Cystisus Scoparius
In my artwork, I have focused mostly on the ideations of a refined image. I sought to extend the drying time of photographs. To allow the ink to hold traces of the conditions within which the works were placed. I removed the medium of paper from the process, instead, printing directly onto aluminium.

Surreal-Absurd Sampler Zachary Schomburg
Surreal-Absurd - Project Jupiter
Some of the most exciting poetry and hybrid work being written today is absurdist/surrealist and often minimalist. Every other Monday, I will feature an absurdist/surrealist writer to tickle your fancies. First up, we have Zachary Schomburg. A selection of absurdist/surrealist prose poems from his book Fjords Vol.2. Forthcoming from Black Ocean in May 2021.

A Very Brief History of Oneness
Poetry of Life - Future World(s)
When we speak of Oneness, we usually mean the separation of the self is an illusion and that ultimate reality transcends such dualism. It is a concept that recurs throughout human history.

Places that hum
A villa on the Mediterranean coast is built in 1929, designed by architect Eileen Gray as a refuge for herself and her lover. She encodes their intertwined initials into the name of the building — the house from its foundations up is inscribed with love. After the couple separate, she watches the building fall into disrepair: inside unwanted murals are painted while from outside bullets perforate its skin. Now as the building undergoes restoration, they channel Eileen’s phantasm - her ideas and her intuitions. Her desire to design a “dwelling as a living organism” invoked to bring life again to its bones.

Eileen Myles: Naming it all, Naming everything
Eileen Myles is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Here she reads from her book: I Must Be Living Twice.

Mercurius in Conversation with SJ Fowler
Thomas Helm and SJ Fowler discuss the contemporary avantgarde literary scene in Europe, SJ Fowler’s own works, the limits of lyric poetry and Romantic ego-worship in an age of ecological collapse and spiralling inequalities, the split between the traditional and the avantgarde, where the current generation is headed, among other things…

March is When the Blackbirds Build their Nests
Even in the winter it is possible to hear blackbirds singing (their song intensifies from January onward). They enjoy singing when the Sun is close to the horizon. Also on days with little rain. Their singing, however, follows a different pattern in cities. The lighting and traffic makes them sing even earlier in the morning, and sometimes all night long. We give them neither darkness nor silence.

A Song of Devotion
We can be devoted to anything that stirs the divine current in us. A mountain, a river, a tree. Even another human being, with all their flaws, but perhaps especially one who loves us unconditionally and inspires love in return. Or we can be devoted to a particular deity who blazes light and truth and appears as an expression of the unity of primordial ground or source consciousness at our core.

The Weightless World
Raymond Ess is going to kill me. This is the thought I can’t stop thinking. One way and another I’ve been thinking it for years, though I used to mean something like Raymond Ess is going to be annoyed with me or Raymond Ess is asking too much of me. I don’t mean either of those things now. I just mean he’s going to kill me…

No answer
After receiving an impassioned Whatsapp voice message from Michael Swatton, Thomas Helm was inspired to transcribe the message, edit it, and turn it into a poem. Michael, who is a professional Canada-based actor, reads the poem aloud in this track.

Christened Final Utterance
Michael Sutton traces a line through 60s and 70s electronica in a stream-of-consciousness style essay, while exploring the surreal nature of the current cultural and political moment. Bands and artists such as Silver Apples, Morton Subotnick, Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel form a part of his meandering.

A Word on Poem Brut
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Paul Hawkins, who co-runs Hesterglock Press, reflects on the meaning and origins of the Poem Brut, an artistic and literary movement that celebrates artistic creative writing - embracing text and colour, space and time, handwriting, composition, abstraction, illustration, sound, mess and motion - affirming the possibilities of the page, the voice and the pen in a computer age.

Red Hen Press: The Poetry Special
Poetry of Life - Project Jupiter
Monica Fernandez presents four Red Hen Press poets Joshua Rivkin, Marie Tozier, Jim Peterson, and Susan Ludvigson.

Five Visual Asemic Poems
At the beginning of lock down last year, I started working on a series of asemic-inspired, abstract, A4 pieces. See below five of my more successful and, to my mind 'beautiful', efforts.

What It Means to Be a Rebel in the 21st Century
An essay that explores the difficulties of rebellion in the 21st century from a wide range of perspectives. Of particular concern are the shortcomings of “us and them” narratives and the absence of a single cohesive alternative to neoliberalism in the fragmented terrain of postmodernity.

Ticks from Hareskov: A Selection of Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poetry
Written at different points in Grzegorz Wróblewski’s life, these poems connect with each other in unexpected ways.

Reflections on Editing
AGNI and Arrowsmith Press’s founder, Askold Melnyczuk, reflects on a life-time as an editor, revisiting the friendships and experiences that helped shaped his literary awareness.

The Man Who Smells of Lemons
“The Man Who Smells of Lemons” depicts a nonbinary figure who is never named, and who explores crumbling streets and buildings as an outsider; a ghost, almost; or a watcher who cannot connect. It comes from Jude Marr’s debut collection of poems We Know Each Other by Our Wounds (Animal Heart Press).

Aletta Ocean Alphabet Empire
Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) is a collection of art poems, hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with Indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques that edge around writing, vying with abstraction, constantly harrying semantic meaning and legibility. My concerns are sex, poetry and pornography and the disconnect between the former and the latter.

Spiritual Pathology
Ever encountered a guru who used his so-called “wisdom” for darker, more selfish needs? Practicing Buddhist and Jungian scholar Rob Preece speaks candidly about the psychological pitfalls of spirituality, explaining why seekers of spiritual truth can sometimes get caught in webs of self-delusion.
The never-ending quest…
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