Monthly Archive for: ‘June, 2025’

Stories that sketched a heart
By MLJ
on June 24, 2025

Stories that sketched a heart

Eleven stories that sketched their way across my heart in the first half of 2025. ‘Grand Canyon’ by Laura Elvery ‘Grand Canyon’ is from Laura Elvery’s Ordinary Matter, her second collection – a suite of 20 stories inspired by women honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research. Marie Curie won the prize twice. In

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‘When I die, your hair will snow’
By MLJ
on June 24, 2025

‘When I die, your hair will snow’

Snowy hair, oxbowed limbs, fretworked bone, the snout of a pen and fingerpainting paths of kikuyu … Come! Enjoy the verbal and visceral wonders of the poems I loved most during the first half of 2025. ‘Obit’ (from section III) by Victoria Chang My children, children / today my hands are dreaming / as they touch your

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