Glasfryn Project

Click on the green page number to link to required page.   Page 1 Editorial Gavin Selerie: Marks Outside the Spa Elisabeth Bletsoe: Two Poems and a Miscellany for Chris Torrance Ian Brinton: Notes from a Correspondence with Chris Torrance Allen Fisher: Leeks and Leaves for Chris Torrance Elaine Randell: Chris, Barry and Me Ian Davidson: Tripping Peter Finch: Torrance Tilla Brading: Pieces for Chris Torrance Robert Minhinnick: Llia Jeremy Hilton: Poems for Chris Torrance   Page 2 Graham Hartill and Chris Vine: Bronze Age Disco: the music of Heat Poets Peter Hodgkiss: Interview with Chris Torrance for Poetry Information 1977 Ric Hool: 13 Friendships - To Chris Torrance Jill Nicholls: Chris Remembered Steven Hitchins: Glyph-licks of skitty squall: Listening to the...

To Read the Poem: from 'Havana Trip'   Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani is a London-based multilingual poet, arts practitioner and researcher of Croatian/Algerian heritage born in Zagreb. Her poems have appeared in UK literary magazines and journals including Molly Bloom, Pamenar Press, The Forthrightly Review and The Still Point Journal, and in literary journals and magazines in Canada and Croatia.  Jasmina has received funding (in 2018 and 2019) for her multilingual poetry project “Unbound” from the Small grant programme of the Language Acts and Worldmaking flagship project funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative. In 2019 she published her debut poetry collection (in English, French and Croatian) Reveries about language / Rêveries autour de la langue / Sanjarenje o jeziku...

  Sascha Aurora Akhtar says: My piece: Occulted Petals is a moving image poetry piece in honour of Geraldine Monk. She uses that juxtaposition of words in her brilliant poetry collection Advent from Crater Press.   Sascha Aurora Akhtar has crafted six metaphysical poetry collections, a short story collection Of Necessity And Wanting embracing social realism and a volume comprising a biography and first time translations of Hijab Imtiazs' little known manuscript Adab-E-Zareen upcoming in 2022 with Oxford University Press. Akhtar is a Poetry School tutor and lecturer at the University of Greenwich. She performs internationally, some highlights include the Emirates Festival of Literature 2022 and Rotterdam Poetry Festival 2012.  Latest writings appear in...

What is the air like after a swim/ as the air floats, the supporting body of water as a person/ like ripples changing/holds up in the shadows/ in real life, a pool is a very large mirror/ a flame between us, an emphasis to write lasts/ there is strength in letters, trust aligns the words between us April lives up to its name, rhapsodic and ardent/ birds have an ability to sense the earth’s magnetic field/ the doves intone Smells like Teen Spirit/ every time I put the washing out/ I am sure of that/who came first: Kurt Cobain or the pigeons? In the search between shoals and wave crests/ a strong current snakes off/takes words to the Breakwater and makes the swimmers sing/ unspoken under the surface, light removes/ time from the body/ the story condenses into matter: what kind of fish did...