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June 16, 2025

Seawilding

June 16, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Christina Riley

Seawilding was taken at the Ardfern headquarters of Seawilding, the UK's first community-led native oyster and seagrass restoration project.

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June 16, 2025

An Anthropology of Turquoise

June 16, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Christina Riley

An Anthropology of Turquoise is a triptych named after a book by Ellen Meloy of the same name, from my time as an artist-in-residence at Knockvologan Studios on the Isle of Mull.

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June 16, 2025

Three poems

June 16, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Nicola Healey

Because I could not find a place, 

I stopped fighting

and let the world swallow me whole.

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June 15, 2025

Sámi Stories

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

Read by Anna Evans

No we didn’t belong to

those who still remembered

this river’s

voice in song

when it had flowed freely

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June 15, 2025

Syria, May 2024

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Janet MacDonald

Syria: civil war, ISIS, refugees, earthquake, these are the words that come to mind. The accompanying images of destruction and displacement served up in the mainstream media are seared into our psyche.

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June 15, 2025

Adrift

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Nick Paul

The air was cool and fresh. Clouds scuttled across the sky and parted now and again to give glimpses of the infinite blackness beyond. Jack embraced the night, swallowing lungfuls of air, his troubles already slipping away. 

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June 15, 2025

Four poems

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Alessio Zanelli

Shrouds of dust across the epochs. 

Leagues and lustrums, 

milestones left along forgotten roads. 

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June 15, 2025

My House

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Andleeb Shadani

I still remember that house. A grand palace, like a child’s dream, with endless doors and corridors, no shadows, no screams.

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June 15, 2025

Jean Luc

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Barry Smith

I have never found that hill easy to climb. No matter how I focused my imagination in the pretence that I was a grand tour leader - and soon to be crowned King of the Mountains - some insistent devilish voice inside my head would prevail.

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June 15, 2025

The Flixbus from Paris, Bercy

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Ben Morris

I'm back on the bus. I'm a no-flyer, and Paris-Turin trains are still out.

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June 15, 2025

Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Sayani Sarkar

The moment you step inside the South Park Street Cemetery, you enter a green enclosure far away from the hustle-bustle of Kolkata’s roads. The petroleum fumes of the busy metropolis give way to a damp, mossy smell typical of graveyards.

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June 15, 2025

Adrift

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Alison Roe

The mist lifts teasingly. The sea brightens, taking on a bluish hue, and above it green-topped cliffs appear, glowing gently in the thin sunshine.

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June 15, 2025

Visiting the Venus Flytraps

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Hope Yancey

A couple approached us as we lingered at the trailhead in the park. “Are you here to see the Venus flytraps?” the man asked my husband and me, eager to share his excitement with someone else.

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June 15, 2025

An American Wakes in New Delhi

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By JC Williams

The potato peddler’s cry rings out 

as streets yawn into another day. 

Aloo, Aloo.  

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June 15, 2025

There's No Place Like Home

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Jos Sinnott

I’ve recently been thinking about the idea of ‘home’. What does it mean to leave home? To long for home? To return home?

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June 15, 2025

I Don't Know

June 15, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Jos Sinnott

Why did I pick up my phone and look at it? 

I've forgotten

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June 13, 2025

Unanchored things, displaced people

June 13, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Kat Hill

It’s a cold day in early February; the air is still and the sun bright. A pair of metal gates adorned with the tree of life face the road that runs through the city of Gdańsk.

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June 13, 2025

The Whimbrel

June 13, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Katherine Abbott

It's getting close to the end of my trip. This morning, I'm walking with that usual sense of dread.

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June 13, 2025

Three poems

June 13, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Katie Boord

“I’ll go back someday.”

But isn’t that what they all say?

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June 13, 2025

Adrift at Home: Grief in Familiar Places

June 13, 2025/ Marcel Krueger

By Lauren Michelle Levesque

so many conversations

our dark humour.

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