We are overjoyed to welcome Tamsyn Challenger’s tender, unflinching, and urgent Him Hymn into the world today! This publication is Challenger’s debut book of poetry, written with an incredible commitment to an intimate and luminous lyric I💙
SPOTTED: copies of Him Hymn in the wild at @burleyfisher.bsky.social
Next week, join Tamsyn Challenger as she celebrates the publication of Him Hymn at the Hungarian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. The event is kindly supported by the University of Glasgow's Creative Writing Programme and organized by the wonderful Colin Herd!
Lineup of contributors for issue 03 - Claire Carroll, CD Boyland, Kadie Newman, Tamsyn Challenger, Ellie Li, P.D. Edgar, Pauline Webber, Colin Bramwell, Andrew Hykel Mears, Lucy Hulton
A flaming heart floating above a beach
Issue 03 is now online! Featuring ten original poems by ten fantastic poets
Happy New Year!
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When you won’t see me I retreat to a small wound at the very split of my side. Caricatured very everyone else whilst I thread myself in unwritten words to the foot of your bed. And very tidily keep my nakedness from percale spread. Flat very incapsulate.
THIS EVENING. FOUR FROM TAMSYN CHALLENGER.
Things that are better than you: a glass dildo my heart drinking wine in fireflies my magic B positive blood
Tamsyn Challenger, Hearing a pigeon crunch on a rail
“These poems are confronting, gorgeous and wild. When you read them, you’ll hear songs. Tamsyn Challenger knows exactly to which rhythm a broken heart beats.” (Nadia de Vries) osmosispress.com/him-hymn-tam...
Bizarre to see the image of the great Casali painting ‘Danaë and the Golden Shower’ (The Hunterian Gallery) removed by bsky.social 🤯
Wish you’d been there dear! It was wonderful @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes…
A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.
Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
https://www.permeablebarrier.com/
📣 New poem ‘When I do count the clock that tells my crime’ published this weekend in the immense and very cool Permeable Barrier 📣
www.permeablebarrier.com
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I urge everyone to read Tess’s breathtaking heartbreaking poem ‘What Is Soft Elastic? We had an intimate moment over the holiday discussing it. I believe it’s one of her best. Her light touch delicate hand packs one hell of a punch. 🥊
#poetry #friends
www.skirtingaround.org/latestissue
New poem ‘Haberdashery’ in the latest issue of Skirting Around. A mag dedicated to examining ‘the politics and emotions of women’s clothing’…
Big thank you to guest reader Saskia McCracken and editor Carolyn Hashimoto.
Over Christmas, Tess Berring and I realised we were both picked for this issue.