The Past Us : Lucy Harbron
The Past Us is a poem about the realisation that your love has changed. It’s a poem about looking back at a relationship and realising it’s become so misshapen over time, it hardly looks like love at all anymore, it […]
The Hand : Lucy Harbron
It was stamped all over me, a hand, two hands; gigantic and red and smothering. Stamped, again and again, with a force that made my skin convex, pushed me into the shape. My cells pulling, trying to avoid it, but […]
Water Birth : Elizabeth Evans & Lucy Harbron
His dad’s dad had built the boat, age 15. His dad swapped the wood for plastic as a project, after spreading the ashes of the man that raised him, and taught him how to sail. He decided to keep […]
‘Caffeine’ : The Rose Affair
Today our favourite band, The Rose Affair, released their new single ‘Caffeine’. The lyrics are poetic and catching, the music video is beautiful and full of cryptic messages, the upbeat riffs mirror perfectly the message of addictive emotion. It signals […]
The Scene : Sheffield & Vultures
In the wake of the industrialisation of music in an X-Factor, generic pop generation, we must seek shelter from the after-shocks in the comfort of our local scene. Each one individual, each one growing. I moved to Sheffield in September’16 […]
I Am My Mother : Lucy Harbron
Through the silken haze of red, pink, blue, and all since I have breathed what she gave me; nourished and nurtured on the feast of warmth which is both cave and atmosphere. Past the liquefied emotions and power in the […]
Wolf : Lucy Harbron #WorldPoetryDay
I emerged grey and screaming. Howling my wolf’s howl; calling to a mother that didn’t understand and a father that looked on with drooped eyes, blinking hard, as if to wake up and try it all again. I lay in […]
An Interview With Palace
When it came to naming the magazine I struggled for a while. I would sit for hours at my desk sending ideas back and forth to people, making draft logo, writing words again and again in different fonts until they […]
‘The Dilemma Of Being Women In The Dark’ – By Lucy Harbron
“I’m most aware of my womanhood when I’m afraid” In recent weeks, my university life has been flooded with horror stories. Weekly I walk roads where I’ve heard a girl my age was attacked, I think of her with sympathy, […]