ruthlessly sharp
the medieval polymath Ramon Llull
winner of a Creative Future award for underrepresented writers
these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance
and of her first year in that world altered beyond recognition by a virus born into our lives at nearly the same time
Slipped Skin by Katie Hale Leonard Cohen ruthlessly sharpPublished 30th December 2025. Slipped Skin by Katie Hale is a tender, sensuous meditation on queerness, transformation, and the porous boundaries between land and sea, body and story. Braiding poetic narrative, essay and mythic retelling, the sequence reimagines the selkie as a figure of in betweenness, a creature of thresholds, shaped by longing, breath, and change. Hale's language is fluid and precise, attuned to the tensions of embodiment and the