Serpent and Stone by Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborrow Greg Gilbert telling the story of an

telling the story of an older woman and a younger one who become lovers in the isolation of their remote home

Giovan Alonzi

edited by Deborah Alma

And yet Snagged on red thread is compelled to march

Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home

Serpent and Stone by Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborrow Greg Gilbert telling the story of anSerpent and Stone is a collaborative sequence by Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow that hands the mic to the women sidelined, simplified, or demonised by inherited stories. Moving through five sections, from fairy tales and Greek myth to Shakespearean figures, canonical literature and biblical archetypes, the book writes in paired poems that speak across each other, rethreading voice, motive, and agency. These monologues are sharp, sensual,