Edited between the wind corridors of the Tepozteco and the banks of Loch Long, the new issue of Wet Grain contains incredible poetry and essays on land-use, ownership, and provenance from the West Bank, the Polish hills, Orkney, Denmark, and around the world. So thankful for the chance to work on it with the elemental @nasimluczaj
Read these poems @wetgrainpoetry
Birch-ply work-in-progress by my brother @big.roddy
An August Work Party, DEBUT ALBUM, out 1st of May
Prelude
Giving Up (the Flat)
Graft
Knack
Our Little Plot on this Beautiful Island
Frugal
A82
Raisins
Appendixes I - IV
Vocals: Patrick Romero McCafferty ⢠Guitar & effects: Tim Martin Ciubotaru ⢠Keys: Lewis Hall ⢠Percussion: Alex Palmer ⢠Fiddle: Peter Alec Kay ⢠Produced by Tim Martin Ciubotaru & Peter Alec Kay ⢠Mixed and mastered by Peter Alec Kay & Barry Reid
Cover art by Clara Ionita
@clarabalaportocala@spadbarry
Thank you @tree.m.c for so many moments both elated and melancholic: you are more than the binoculars in this emotional bird-watch of a project. Thank you @clarabalaportocala for the beautifully-captured image of decay that graces the cover. Abandoned tents gliding above Idanha-da-Nova after Boom also feel apt somehow.
âGraftâ is out now. âAn August Work Partyâ @anoraq.sound debut album, is out on the 1st of May.
Lots of islands, lots and lots of plots: âOur Little Plot on this Beautiful Islandâ is out today!
Shout out to Jimmie MacBeath, whose version of âMcCaffertyâ is an ear worm and who I probably shouldnât identify with as much as I do.
Thank you @clarabalaportocala for the rainy Eshaness cover design, which gives @peteralecmusic solo a certain wedding reel joy when I listen to it now.
âTroubled Faultlinesâ, a conversation about Latin American history and how it has influenced Southernmost: Sonnets (@chattobooks ) & Glass Knot Sun (@brookespoetry ) is out on the @poetry_london website today đ
This is timely, as it coincides with the launch of the Latinx issue of @wasafirimag edited by Leo and @karinalickorishquinn at the British Library and Reference Point in coming days.
You can keep up with much of whatâs happening in UK Latinx writing by following @unslatinxwriters a collective for poets and writers of Latinx heritage.
Deep thanks to @isabellebaafi & @niallcpoetry for instigating this. Read the conversation for free at poetrylondon.co.uk
Hasta siempre,
Patrick & Leo
Iâll be landing in Edinburgh just as star fruit season comes to an all-too-abrupt end & also just a few of hours before submissions close for Issue Seven of @wetgrainpoetry Please donât deny us the chance to pay you for your work: send your poems, essays, and essay pitches our way before Thursday night đ
Wet Grainâs now joined the roster of publications supported by @creativescots . As far as I know, itâs the first green light for a literary magazine in quite some time and thatâs not to be taken for granted. Nor is editing it alongside @nasimluczaj âď¸
I posted a short piece outlining the magazineâs new outlook in our newsletter:
âAs both a measurable economic unit and (more importantly for us) a paradigmatic metaphor, how we relate to land shapes us imaginatively at the deepest level.â
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WET GRAIN ISSUE SIX ⢠Edited by Charles Lang, Nasim Luczaj, Eloise Birtwhistle, & Patrick Romero McCafferty
New poetry, interviews, & reviews by:
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
Medha Singh
Dan Power
gentian rhosa
John Glenday
Hubert Matiuwaa
MaĹgorzata Lebda
Yasmine Seale
Heidi Williamson
Ingrid Bringas
Maria Sledmere
Dipanjali Roy
Clara-LĂŚĂŻla Laudette
Kim Crowder
Catherine Wilson Garry
Ellen Renton
Colin Bramwell
Christie Williamson
Samuel Tongue
Esraa Husain
Cover design by Alina Karre
Typesetting by Christian Lemay
Copies available to order by email: [email protected]
