https://fiona-glen.com Fiona Glen Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:25:01 +0000 https://fiona-glen.com en https://fiona-glen.com/Home Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:07:51 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/Home <img width="3543" height="3543" width_o="3543" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00db657165d54d453b4c2869ed3b724bd6e1f47121c7f946ddc3270b2da63b8a/website-homepage-image.png" data-mid="69724372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00db657165d54d453b4c2869ed3b724bd6e1f47121c7f946ddc3270b2da63b8a/website-homepage-image.png" /> https://fiona-glen.com/Info Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:32:50 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/Info <img width="2840" height="1566" width_o="2840" height_o="1566" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f9f54b176a6739cbf14f1690b40c05b260f967136a74e91bcc33f3f2121ed6e/still-from-footage-by-Luka-Knezevic-Strika-for-Footnote-Centre.png" data-mid="215289655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f9f54b176a6739cbf14f1690b40c05b260f967136a74e91bcc33f3f2121ed6e/still-from-footage-by-Luka-Knezevic-Strika-for-Footnote-Centre.png" />&nbsp;Fiona Glen reading at Ada Lake, Belgrade. Still from video by Luka Knežević-Strika. microbio(me)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am a writer, artist and editor from Edinburgh. In January 2024, I moved to Vancouver, which sits on the unceded ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. I came to this mossy place from London, UK, where I graduated in 2020 from the MA Writing at the Royal College of Art.&nbsp;Across forms, my work circulates around ecology, language and relationship. I’m interested in how we come to understand ourselves through telling stories about – and identifying with – other beings. I can be found writing sensual celebrations of hagfish and developing audio projects which play with the materiality of plastic. my practice My independent work explores embodiment, unruly ecologies, and how we humans understand ourselves through images, metaphors, things, and other beings. My work-in-progress book, Shapeshifter, considers the octopus as a slippery figure in contemporary culture – and, like the octopus, it moves through different states, changing its approach to the reader.&nbsp; I’m passionate about interdisciplinary, collaborative, and experimental writing – particularly where it intersects with art – and I have taught writing courses at venues including Camden Art Centre. My audio work has previously been commissioned by the BBC and ICA, my essays and criticism have been published in periodicals such as ArtReview, MAP Magazine, Aesthetica, and 3:AM Magazine, and my creative essays and prose have appeared in anthologies such as DreamsTimeFree, NOIT, Pala, Dark Mountain,&nbsp;and Prototype 5. Mycoglossia, my first poetry pamphlet, co-written with Nina Hanz, was published in December 2022 by HVTN Press, and is an experimental exploration of mushrooms and spores. I gravitate towards strange incidences, fantastical life cycles, and stories of enthusiasm and obsession. I revel in pop culture where it converges with the weird, and I seek to celebrate the unseen majesty of overlooked beings: worms, frogs, mould, or plankton. My projects have seen me theorising slime trends on YouTube and fictionalising the formation of the human skull.&nbsp; ––– I am also a freelance copywriter, editor and strategist. You can find out more and work with me at&nbsp;work.fiona-glen.com <img width="3145" height="3145" width_o="3145" height_o="3145" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d183f935b78eb88d7182c61666629f47674d70bed44f48b8e303b5b11516c9f9/FIONA-1.jpg" data-mid="89383939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d183f935b78eb88d7182c61666629f47674d70bed44f48b8e303b5b11516c9f9/FIONA-1.jpg" /> <img width="3284" height="3285" width_o="3284" height_o="3285" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f41f2bf5a48d0c1fe3c829f4af620425befaf5d13923ec8292778f4445e0f3b4/FIONA-3.jpg" data-mid="89383941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f41f2bf5a48d0c1fe3c829f4af620425befaf5d13923ec8292778f4445e0f3b4/FIONA-3.jpg" /> <img width="1051" height="1048" width_o="1051" height_o="1048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4821d48920861f94543cf8ad8c3cc86efde79e6bf0db4082ade8a6f66011a056/FIONA-image.png" data-mid="89383838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4821d48920861f94543cf8ad8c3cc86efde79e6bf0db4082ade8a6f66011a056/FIONA-image.png" /><img width="3294" height="3289" width_o="3294" height_o="3289" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e63a13feeb92e3d882433a4128786628e43784228284b5d61c36812e90a1c2c/FIONA-2.jpg" data-mid="89383940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e63a13feeb92e3d882433a4128786628e43784228284b5d61c36812e90a1c2c/FIONA-2.jpg" /> https://fiona-glen.com/CV Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:30:02 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/CV CV Publications 2025 – ‘tentacle-link’, experimental essay and images, print and digital, Rich Text: The Inaugural Issue 2024 – ‘Amphibious Listening’, essay on frog sound and intimacy, Ambient Receiver2024 – ‘Yellow Sticky Fly Trap Multipack Dual-Sided Glue Catcher Indoor Outdoor...’, poem,&nbsp;Gutter 2024 – ‘missed connections’, poem inspired by AI autotranscription misunderstandings, CWYR Zine&nbsp; 2024 – ‘unflock’, four-part experimental poem, Strings 1: dreams jangling with lost connections&nbsp; 2024 – ‘Arrested Octopus’, art writing / experimental writing, Caesura&nbsp;anthology, Pala Press 2023 – ‘strawberry squid’ + ‘insatiable wriggler’, Brilliant Vibrating Interface, an anthology of queer poetry, SPAM Press 2023 – ‘Being is a tender strength’, art writing, Prototype 5 anthology, Prototype Press 2023 – ‘THE FLESH, THE MESH, THE MUSHROOM’, collaborative essay with Nina Hanz,&nbsp;MAP Magazine 2023 – ‘As Silica’, poem, Eight Fires anthology, Dark Mountain 2023 –&nbsp;‘Evolving Food Traditions’, conversation with Maia Magoga for ACV Magazine,&nbsp;Tradition 2023 –&nbsp;‘the cat which is wild, savage, or of the woodlands’, creative prose, FDBNHLLLTTFMOURNING, Sticky Fingers 2023 – ‘Vergankelijkheidswake’ / ‘Guarding Transience’, drawings with Miek Zwamborn + poetry, De Gids 2023 – ‘Palettes of the Gods’, art writing/essay, My Daughter Terra anthology, ed. Nina Hanz, Plaintiff Press 2022 – Mycoglossia, poetry pamphlet in collaboration with Nina Hanz, HVTN Press 2022 – ‘She is the knot that always slips’, prose poem, Daisyworld Magazine Issue 005: Dangerous Depths 2022 – ‘www.dreamoracledivine.xyz’, experimental text, FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY, Sticky Fingers 2022 – Feature on Libby Heaney, CLOT Magazine 2022 – Interview with Howardena Pindell, Twin Magazine 2022 – ‘Forget the Metaverse; It’s Time for Artists to Enter the ‘Mutaverse’, ArtReview 2022 – ‘On Alberto Balsam’, poetry,&nbsp;You’ve Got So Many Machines, Richard!, an Aphex Twin anthology, Broken Sleep 2022 –&nbsp;‘Through Hagstones’, drawing,&nbsp;Blue House Journal: Stone 2022 –&nbsp;‘seawitch, I watch you’, experimental essay,&nbsp;SPAM Plaza 2021 – ‘Inscribing the Devil Fish’, essay, 3:AM Magazine 2021 – ‘membrane exchange’,&nbsp; The Digest Reader, zine supported by TACO! 2021 –&nbsp;‘wolfish / this heart is’, poetry,&nbsp;FDBNHLLLTTFNOCTURNAL, Sticky Fingers 2021 –&nbsp;‘Yeast’ + ‘Headtail’, poetry,&nbsp;Tentacular Magazine 2021 –&nbsp;‘Grinding, slicing, tearing’, experimental fiction,&nbsp;DreamsTimeFree: Soft Tissue, TACO! 2021 –&nbsp;‘Meat Dreaming’, experimental drawing and writing zine, Sticky Fingers2021 –&nbsp;‘(un)like death warmed up’, essay,&nbsp;Dark Mountain 20: Abyss 2021 –&nbsp;‘SLIMY, STICKY, SWEET’, essay and video (from conference presentation),&nbsp;SPAM Plaza 2021 – ‘As Syrup’, poetry,&nbsp;AWW-STRUCK, Poem Atlas 2021 – ‘Three Poems’,&nbsp;FDBNHLLLTTFHORROR, Sticky Fingers 2021 –&nbsp;‘Intertitles’, experimental writing anthology review,&nbsp;MAP Magazine 2021 –&nbsp;‘Leaves, alive and otherwise’, essay,&nbsp;Still Point Journal 2020 – ‘Sharing Grounds: A Commonplace’, review,&nbsp;3:AM Magazine 2020 –&nbsp;‘Contagion Closer to Animal’, poetry collaboration with Nina Hanz,&nbsp;ARC 2020 –&nbsp;‘Distant Tenderness: Molly Morphew’, review,&nbsp;ArtDaily 2020 –&nbsp;‘A pissing match over tigers’, long-form poetry,&nbsp;The Pluralist 2020 –&nbsp;‘Pipe Down’, fiction,&nbsp;Attention anthology 2020 –&nbsp;‘Contact’, photography series, ARC Magazine 2020 –&nbsp;‘Heal Underfoot’, essay,&nbsp;Simulacrum Journal 2020 –&nbsp;‘Eco-Visionaries’, long-form review,&nbsp;Art &amp; the Public Sphere 2019 –&nbsp;‘Turning’, letter,&nbsp;Letters to the Earth&nbsp;anthology, HarperCollins 2019 –&nbsp;‘Welcome to Elsewhere’, essay,&nbsp;NOIT Journal, Flat Time House 2019 –&nbsp;‘Weighting’, poetry and prose,&nbsp;Le Grand K&nbsp;anthology 2019 –&nbsp;‘The Present Moment: Sonic Acts’, review,&nbsp;Aesthetica Commissions&nbsp; 2025 –&nbsp; ‘sea to lung to sea to lung’ and ‘The Murex Files’, publication text and installed text work, Our Place in the Family of Things 2023 – ‘Delimiting’, prose, To Be We Need to Know the River 2022 – ‘Surface as vessel’, poetic essay, Dark Mountain Issue 22 – ARK 2022 – ‘Undergoings’, long-form essay, Pala Press: Subteranne 2022 – ‘From the Ends of the Earth’, essay, IOU Theatre2022 – Four poems for accompanying publication, Sink or Float, solo exhibition of Jessica Wetherly, Aspex Portsmouth 2021 – ‘fable’, text for catalogue of Jessica Wetherly’s exhibition, Tele(gram): frequencies of the forest (Bilbao) 2021 – ‘boundless’ + ‘transmission’, poems for Pollination’s refugees welcome campaign, Open Culture: No Borders 2020 – ‘Gently as our days bite’, 11-part micro-fiction series, Robert Young Antiques2020 – ‘The Best Park Ever’, hand-drawn map and text, HORRID! Covid 4: The Park 2019 – Ground Up, 18-minute audio work commissioned by ICA / BBC New Creatives 2019 – ‘&lt;&gt;’, text response to Jessica Wetherly’s RCA MA show, Laboratory2019 – ‘Primordium’ – performance script – Arvid&amp;Marie Events + Workshops 2025 – Dreaming Worlds in Motion, art writing workshop, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver2025 – Attending to Place through Writing, workshop, UBC Farm, Vancouver 2024 – Rewrite the Images, art writing workshop, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver 2023 – Attendant Writing, first workshop at LOT Projects, second workshop at Glengall Wharf Gardens, London 2023 – Sporing Poetry with Nina Hanz, collaborative eco-poetry workshop at Floating, Berlin 2022 – HUM MURMUR MUTTER, five-week experimental writing course, Camden Art Centre, London 2022 – Inside Your Mouth Are Mountains, three-week experimental writing course, Camden Art Centre, London 2021 – A More-Than-Human Story, ecological writing workshop, Baker Street Productions, online 2021 – Gut Feelings: Voicing the Visceral, three-hour experimental writing workshop with Esme Boggis, TACO!, London 2019 – You Enter Into a White Room, three-day art writing workshop with Harri Welch and Lucy Holt, AcrossRCA, London 2019 – Playing Houses, (project manager) three-venue day programme, Flat Time House, London 2016 – *immersions, curating screening series spotlighting Levantine moving image artists, Al Ma’mal Gallery, East Jerusalem Group Exhibitions + Showcases 2025 – Our Place in the Family of Things, texts, Dorman Museum (Middlebrough, UK) 2023 – Drawing In, collaborative drawings with Miek Zwamborn within open call element of exhibition, An Tobar (Isle of Mull, UK) 2022 – JE SERAI t.a.on meilleur.e.x ami.e.x, drawings + writings, Non-Étoile (Paris, FR) 2022 –&nbsp;Octopus’s Garden, recorded poetry for group exhibit with Knockvologan Studies, De Vishal (Haarlem, NL)&nbsp; 2021 – Magical Octopus Sequel, cyanotypes + audio for group show, Knockvologan Studies (Isle of Mull, UK) 2020 – Small Talk, My Animal, curatorial text + audio piece for group show (online) 2020 – Letters in Lockdown, letter on lungs read by Jessica Hynes for Culture Declares (online)2020 – Current Transmissions, Ground Up shown as part of ICA x New Creatives showcase, ICA (London, UK)Residencies, Laboratories + Artists’ Workshops 2025 –&nbsp;Sitka Center for Art &amp; Ecology, Oregon, USA – three-week self-directed residency2025 – Citizen Poet,&nbsp;UBC Farm, Vancouver – self-directed residency organised by&nbsp;Vancouver Poet Laureate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner 2025 – Western Front, Vancouver – Shop Literati, three-part collaborative workshop with Bruno Zhu 2023 – Footnote Centre for Image and Text, Belgrade – nine-day self-directed micro-residency 2019 – FIBER, Amsterdam –&nbsp;Cartographies of the Vanishing Now, artist laboratory &nbsp; Readings, Presentations + Panels 2025 – Mushroom Church with Modern Biology, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver 2024 – Mushroom Church with Modern Biology, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver 2023 – Special Edition: Non-Human Poetry, National Poetry Library, London 2023 – Prototype 5, anthology launch and showcase, The Ivy House, London 2023 – Formas Mutatas, an evening of performances interpreting Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Asylum Chapel, London 2023 – Soundgate Belgrade, live broadcast by the Lumpen Station (Switzerland), from Footnote Centre, Belgrade 2022 – Slime, Sublime, Sublimation,with Esther Leslie, Krystle Patel and Maybelle Peters, The Horse Hospital, London 2022 – Autumn Party, Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Glory, London 2022 – Still Point Writers’ Showcase, Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London 2021 – Winter Party, Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Glory, London 2021 – A Handful of Sinister Scenarios (AKA Jump My Bones), opening, Florence Trust, London 2021 – Mouth Parts, group show curated by Molly Morphew, St Margaret’s House, London 2021 – Write the Earth, Baker Street Productions for Reading Climate Festival, Reading 2021 – Aww-Struck: Creative and Critical Approaches to Cuteness, University of Bristol + Royal Holloway, online 2020 – Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other, panel discussion chaired by Dame Marina Warner, RCA2020, online 2020 – Obsessed! panel discussion chaired by Sally O’Reilly, RCA2020, online 2020 – Attention! anthology launch, Morocco Bound, London 2019 – Le Grand K broadcast by thisistomorrow, World Metrology Day, Science Museum, London 2019 – Le Grand K anthology&nbsp;launch, Gossamer Fog, London Achievements 2024 – Longlisted for the Upstart &amp; Crow Stories from Here residency and grant (CA) 2023 – Drusilla Harvey Access Grant (UK), for Sporing Poetry workshop at Floating, Berlin (DE) 2020 – Shortlisted for the Interstices Novel Commission, Book Works (UK) 2019 – New Creatives Commission for Ground Up, Institute for Contemporary Art x BBC (UK) 2016 –&nbsp;The Holland Scholarship, Dutch Ministry of Education (NL), merit-based funds to study at McGill University (CA) Education 2020 – MA Writing, Royal College of Art (UK) 2017 – BA International Studies, Leiden University (NL) 2013 – International Baccalaureate https://fiona-glen.com/PCIES Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:56:20 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/PCIES ~~~~~~~ page coming into existence soon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page coming into existence soon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page coming into existence soon ~~~~~~~ https://fiona-glen.com/Being-is-a-tender-strength Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:25:01 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/Being-is-a-tender-strength <img width="1064" height="1407" width_o="1064" height_o="1407" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac746479ccbd44d016e9af83bd4488dbb4e00420f657fe5c12bafd6870a0f0d6/PROTOTYPE-5_front-scan.jpeg" data-mid="208955230" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac746479ccbd44d016e9af83bd4488dbb4e00420f657fe5c12bafd6870a0f0d6/PROTOTYPE-5_front-scan.jpeg" />Image: anthology cover. Being is a tender strengthEssay on vulnerability, intimacy, care, pain, corporeality, and transmissions, all guided by the soft-bodied octopus. Published in the fifth annual anthology of the wonderful independent press, Prototype. To be included in this collection was a real honour. ‘Being is a tender strength’ is part of Shapeshifter (FKA Cephalopodomania).&nbsp;Extract:&nbsp; On the day when I go to get a copper contraceptive coil inserted into my womb, this unseen part of myself – its dimensions mysterious to me – must first be measured with a sound, and a gut-lurching prod as its thin plastic proboscis hits my uterine wall. This sound is named after another: the rope that mariners once used to map the sea, dropping a weight to the bottom over and over again. Firmly asserting an opinion on its new resident, my womb demonstrate its discontent, contracting in earnest attempts to push the coil – a foreig body – out of internal territory. This is, apparently, normal. But suddenly the pure muscularity of this eight-centimetre-deep part of me is palpable, broadcasting protest-laden waves of back-curling pain, wrenching on ) nerves that seem to reach deep into every other mass in my torso. Ultimate proof that bodies and their organs can think and speak, this time in a literally visceral language. This mild cyborgification of myself, this adaptation, comes mid-way through my descent into a gentle obsession with collecting and writing octopuses, tracing their lineage through dusty archives, memes and synaesthetic digital art. And in my days of aching adjustment, my partner brings me a soft toy octopus. Dusky pink, head the size of a fist. One of a kind that had popped up in children’s shops, bookstores and gift boutiques in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, Berlin. Wherever I went, members of this close-knit JellyCat family peeked out from shop windows, inaccurate yet charming smiles shining from the pink and teal of their ultrasoft faces. And now mine sits on my belly, with the heartfelt gaze of pure love that toymakers have spent centuries mastering with the most minimal application of small, tight stitches. Eight springy arms corkscrew out over my skin, peritonea and deep, throbbing tissues.&nbsp;The way I love this small and incongruously fleecy inanimate object initially felt regressive – a soft toy. But he stands in for care and kindness, for my partner’s touch. Months later, my colleague knits an octopus, just to occupy her hands as she watches a film, then brings her into work for me, the increasingly indiscreet collector of octopuses. Purple and yellow, the little crocheted animal sits still on my desk, goggling encouragingly at us all, until another colleague bring his young baby to visit. Perched on a spinny chair that is comically over-large for her, the one-year-old baby grips and shakes the little octopus, chirruping and chewing on her limbs in gummy appreciation. Knitting is making a soft network. Wiring warmth. That year, as we drive home for Christmas, my stepmother, a retired nurse, tells me about Octopus for a Preemie, a charity that asks people to knit, crochet and donate soft toy octopuses to maternity wards for premature babies. The octopuses’ many soft arms, each like an umbilical cord, reassure the tiny, early humans in their incubators. Sleeping with these arms gripped in their hands, babies are less likely to tug on or pull out their lifelines in distress or confusion, thinking that these tubes still tether them to a parent. The idea that a small, knitted octopus could help to save a human baby’s life seems remarkable, like a children’s story. There is a strange and strangely heart-breaking intensity in how this figure of another animal tangles up with human life, cradled at its most vulnerable. [...] _________ Prototype 5 features contributions from Rojbîn Arjen, Alex Aspden, Ed Atkins &amp; Steven Zultanski, Mau Baiocco, Claire Carroll, Hal Coase, James M. Creed, Iulia David, Nia Davies, Fiona Glen, Olivia Heal, Emma Hellyer, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Rowe Irvin, Sasja Janssen (trans. Michele Hutchison), Bhanu Kapil, Sharon Kivland, Jeff Ko, Prerana Kumar, Grace Connolly Linden, Dasha Loyko, Nasim Luczaj, Ian Macartney, So Mayer, Catrin Morgan, Ghazal Mosadeq, Connor Oswald, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Helen Quah, Dipanjali Roy, Leonie Rushforth, Stanley Schtinter, Lutz Seiler (trans. Stefan Tobler), Madeleine Stack, Malin Ståhl, Corin Sworn, Olly Todd, Yasmin Vardi, Kate Wakeling, Nathan Walker, Ahren Warner, &amp; Stephen Watts. https://fiona-glen.com/On-Alberto-Balsam Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:55:23 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/On-Alberto-Balsam <img width="1257" height="1800" width_o="1257" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e44ba6b1ab99f27e240e2357c4c13df6484542b3a15a02edd98867185e039ef/richard-01.jpg" data-mid="208954219" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e44ba6b1ab99f27e240e2357c4c13df6484542b3a15a02edd98867185e039ef/richard-01.jpg" /> Image: anthology cover. On Alberto BalsamPoem published in Broken Sleep’s 2022 anthology on Aphex Twin / Richard D. James /&nbsp;AFX / Polygon Window, You’ve got so many machines, Richard! I wanted to use words to make a droplet of the nostalgia-unspooling mood of Aphex’s song Alberto Balsam. I composed this poem largely from fragments of YouTube comments – reassembling feelings and thoughts shared by strangers into a flow that fits my own sense of the song. <img width="1170" height="1800" width_o="1170" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/532643477b067b66465b002f164984d9aa59ca95155352c66a6bf70fc7454421/richard-on-alberto-balsam-02.jpg" data-mid="208954220" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/532643477b067b66465b002f164984d9aa59ca95155352c66a6bf70fc7454421/richard-on-alberto-balsam-02.jpg" /> https://fiona-glen.com/Tentacular-8 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:21:02 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/Tentacular-8 <img width="1132" height="1036" width_o="1132" height_o="1036" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5565ab22820c46af8107f5b04004ac81ee07e9d61f0628cb648b8d6a38a4a53c/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.20.50.png" data-mid="208887813" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5565ab22820c46af8107f5b04004ac81ee07e9d61f0628cb648b8d6a38a4a53c/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.20.50.png" /> yeast + headtailTwo poems published in Tentacular magazine Issue 8: ‘Transitions’, guest-edited by Isabelle Baafi. ‘yeast’ can also be found in Mycoglossia. <img width="1767" height="2866" width_o="1767" height_o="2866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a922af40bdaff23b1c970bd44333e9417b16cbe9af08f6dfb24f126b1c45e2e5/fiona-glen-tentacular-magazine-8-1.png" data-mid="208887814" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a922af40bdaff23b1c970bd44333e9417b16cbe9af08f6dfb24f126b1c45e2e5/fiona-glen-tentacular-magazine-8-1.png" /> <img width="1767" height="1602" width_o="1767" height_o="1602" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3bdf4fe9ff524e3d13bf0d8dd873899cd5f664c3abb165e3f9d9f5709c555b4/fiona-glen-tentacular-magazine-8-2.png" data-mid="208887815" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3bdf4fe9ff524e3d13bf0d8dd873899cd5f664c3abb165e3f9d9f5709c555b4/fiona-glen-tentacular-magazine-8-2.png" /> https://fiona-glen.com/BVI-Anthology Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:14:00 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/BVI-Anthology <img width="2046" height="1106" width_o="2046" height_o="1106" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f603ec0dbfc3e6c9441200e899fb0ee2bfe7a644324cc4c5690ab53d565a020c/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.06.32.png" data-mid="208887591" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f603ec0dbfc3e6c9441200e899fb0ee2bfe7a644324cc4c5690ab53d565a020c/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.06.32.png" /> Images: from the start of the BVI ‘digital sibling’. insatiable wriggler + strawberry squid&nbsp;Two poems published in late 2023 as part of&nbsp;Brilliant Vibrating Interface, an anthology of queer poetry from SPAM Press. BVI exists both in book format, and as the ‘digital sibling’ – an interactive, multimedia website. Bringing together work by a generation of ‘digital natives’, the project continues the concerns of Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, including ‘queerness, experiment, hybridity and technology’. ‘insatiable wriggler’ is an ekphrastic response to the slinky orange form within Louise Bourgeois’ 1996 sculpture, untitled. ‘strawberry squid’ addresses the animal of its name, a deep sea creature that is only made visible, from my distant vantage point, by the entrancing videos and hyper-detailed images that were washed up in my hands by the algorithmic tides of the internet.&nbsp; Extracts from ‘insatiable wriggler’: bright&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * as&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; *&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;open&nbsp; &nbsp;*&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; pumpkin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;or tangerine tiger or peeled peach &nbsp; &nbsp; bum tucked under: neat in pleat and patch slinky wicked impish one coiled like lamprey in pink bucket, untrusted in that lithe, sly way [...]torso writ as a stem of twisty ruckles, tusled furtive (quick squeezed giggle!) [...]prehensile slendrous tensile tickling trunk the suspect is so fiendish sweet: an imposter trailing puzzled perk lurid and changed through every frame Fragments from ‘strawberry squid’: <img width="2397" height="1075" width_o="2397" height_o="1075" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13ea40d9a0f09b83e32c5ffb368f6292d319c36b8b72d8822abb8de81f73dc92/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-18.10.58.png" data-mid="208889791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13ea40d9a0f09b83e32c5ffb368f6292d319c36b8b72d8822abb8de81f73dc92/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-18.10.58.png" /> <img width="2366" height="1063" width_o="2366" height_o="1063" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87609ccd79a730bb89626af9a8fef5d413c3083efc5f0d3739f3173c12ae8da2/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.13.15.png" data-mid="208889790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87609ccd79a730bb89626af9a8fef5d413c3083efc5f0d3739f3173c12ae8da2/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-17.13.15.png" /> https://fiona-glen.com/Unflock Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:52:32 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/Unflock <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22341f90488f08b4dbdb0e0857f44802700cc53b3e1d10b12da328d456a23abc/bernard-hermant-AGWsD2xP2fg-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="208886245" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22341f90488f08b4dbdb0e0857f44802700cc53b3e1d10b12da328d456a23abc/bernard-hermant-AGWsD2xP2fg-unsplash.jpg" /> Image: Bernard Hermant, via unsplash. unflockFour-part poem based on the dynamics, sounds, textures, and movements of bird vocalisations. It was published in March 2024 in the first issue of Strings magazine, Strings 1: ‘dreams jangling with lost connections’. This poem owes part of its material to Jim Flegg’s humble Collins Gem book, Birds.&nbsp; Extracts: <img width="982" height="972" width_o="982" height_o="972" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5df917412694f634901d35d70ba661427af92772ae3950c80b1d3a43d6d73c28/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-15.59.56.png" data-mid="208886264" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/982/i/5df917412694f634901d35d70ba661427af92772ae3950c80b1d3a43d6d73c28/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-15.59.56.png" /> <img width="982" height="912" width_o="982" height_o="912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b7c4ac1eb485c965afc79031446c24747ff840b1f87081106efa3f2ae60ee0f/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-15.59.45.png" data-mid="208886263" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/982/i/9b7c4ac1eb485c965afc79031446c24747ff840b1f87081106efa3f2ae60ee0f/Screenshot-2024-04-13-at-15.59.45.png" /> https://fiona-glen.com/As-Silica Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:27:17 +0000 Fiona Glen https://fiona-glen.com/As-Silica <img width="1175" height="1800" width_o="1175" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61f47788ed01762cec218d91e8d37acff164ba0c2f46a1ec5bdf5e128c5fefc1/eight-fires-01.jpg" data-mid="208886963" border="0" data-scale="38" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61f47788ed01762cec218d91e8d37acff164ba0c2f46a1ec5bdf5e128c5fefc1/eight-fires-01.jpg" /> Image: anthology cover art. As SilicaPoem published in Eight Fires, the autumn 2023 anthology from Dark Mountain which explores the eight ceremonial fires of the year through practices, stories, poetry and artwork. The book is “made of wild winds, seaweed shelters, glass mushrooms, talking fire sticks, singing stones, moments of joy, grief and intense physical immersion in a sentient planet.” I am grateful that this poem, which had sat with me for four years before I submitted it, found a home in this anthology. <img width="1074" height="1800" width_o="1074" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be261b4935e41cc71612d13920587ed276bd7e339d28f799de74fb70056171eb/eight-fires-as-silica-02.jpg" data-mid="208886964" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be261b4935e41cc71612d13920587ed276bd7e339d28f799de74fb70056171eb/eight-fires-as-silica-02.jpg" />