REMEMBERING SNOW – JEFF PHELPS
Three o’clock on New Year’s Day / and already the clamp of white sky / tightens towards darkness. / Steam is scrawled by the last […]
STRIPS OF COLOUR – MICHAEL DOHERTY
HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Green Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some writers and artists who’d sent in work the chance to be published here on the website. […]
EDU-CASH-ION – AMY TURNBULL
Amy Turnbull has been working with found imagery drawn from the worlds of retro soft-pornography and the kitsch glamour of advertising. Working in the tradition of critical photomontage […]
MATCHA MAKER – ROB GOALBY
Splattered with steamed milk and reeking of coffee is just my natural state. The same drinks, hour after hour, the same grinding noise, beans turning to powder, the same gurgle, espresso in a cup. And now flowers. What kind of boy […]
INFINITE FREQUENCY – STEVE CAVIN
The frequency of green light, / Is six hundred teracycles per second. / The frequency of FM radio, / Is ninety megacycles per second. / The frequency of […]
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 […]