PARK KEEPER – SIOBHAN DUNLOP
The planet’s dying. / He walks around the park, / Same as always, / Picking litter, / Single-use plastic that had its time. […]
NEGOTIATION – FIONA JONES
My heart isn’t in this fight. This small perennial battle over my front driveway: contending with dandelions, ground-thistle, chickweed, grasses, invaders of human territory […]
FOR A TIME, YOU WILL FEEL MORE ALIVE THAN EVER – SARAH PASSINGHAM
Connect with the trees, the sky, the season / by stretching out your body before a window. / Do not bring in today with radio, TV or Phone, / but make this day your own. Open the door / and […]
PLANT LIFE – JAMILA WALKER
Jamila Thomas is a Midlands-based Artist whose practice uses found objects and demonstrates a fascination with minutiae of the everyday. Digital manipulation and mixed media enable Jamila to construct visual worlds and characters […]
LETHAL GREENS – SAL HIGGS
History lingers in the Poison Garden / below sullen stone walls stamped on parchment sky. / Herbalists, healers and wise women whisper / warnings of wormwood, monkshood, strychnine berries, / blistering, burning […]
AUGUST 2020: Virtual Literary Events
Listing for August 2020: Literary Events Online Although some lockdown restrictions have been eased in the UK, the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet gone away. Subsequently, the challenges of making sure arts events still happen are on-going. Social distancing...
‘THESE LIVES WE SELL…’ – ADAM ZAK HAWLEY
‘…are cheaper than you’d expect,’ he chuckled, slamming his hand against a cold sarcophagus as if it were a used car. Upon entering the room, I saw a rusted plaque that read: COLD STORAGE. The kind you would find at the base of a tomb […]
MEADOW SONG – MARC BRIGHTSIDE
We took a day away from city life to drown / ourselves in protest. A winding trail by the old / mill gave us shelter down a Hampshire mile, / where the countryside hummed cricket songs / and damsels coupled in mid-flight at waterside, /
intoxicated by […]
MY ANCESTORS MUST HAVE BEEN BEASTS – HANNAH MELIN
When I dig into that cording in my gut that drags out in a twisting line across oceans and centuries, it seems impossible that I share a core with gentlefolk in layers of well-ironed wool […]
WILD FIRES – C. R. RESETARITS
HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Green Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some shortlisted writers and artists the chance to be published here on the website. Keep an eye on our social media for more...