zarf #15 is here!! featuring poems from Zein Sa’dedin, Tessa Berring, Rosa Jones, Nehaal Bajwa, Millie Rosette, Memoona Zahid, Alexa Winik, Anna Cheung, Asta Kinch, & Aisha Farr, plus Matthew Travers on Sean Bonney and Flo Taylor on Dena Igusti. as promised, this is a digital and completely free edition available at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/zarchive – it also comes in print-your-own-pamphlet format with instructions for assembly.
this will be the last issue of Zarf magazine. thank you to everyone who has read us over the last five years, sent in work, and passed it from hand to hand, and especially those on this list who encouraged and supported. Zarf Editions, our pamphlet press, is still up and running at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets AND many of our past titles are now available as ebooks at gumroad.com/zarfeditions for pay-what-you-can.
send us 3 pages by 31st march to zarfpoetry@gmail.com and we will read it for Issue #15. we will also consider 500-word reviews of poetry pamphlets, zines, and small press books.
ZARF #14 is here! with poems by sidrah zubair, hilary white, arun sood, sadia pineda hameed, radha patel, s. niroshini, isabela montello, stéphane mallarmé (translated by peter manson), nour el-issa, lotte l.s., anna jepson, sarah cave, linda kemp, sally-shakti willow, sy brand, tom betteridge, jakky bankong-obi, sandra alland
plus! e. v. moore reviews Very Authentic Person by kat sinclair, flo taylor reviews Kalimba by petero kalulé, and arianne maki on Dream Babes 2.0, edited by victoria sin
buy now for £2, or £4 with our most recent pamphlet <3
really excited to announce the Glasgow launch of the next Zarf Editions pamphlet, Sylvie Siren and Other Poems by Lana Hughes
on Saturday 12th October ~ 2-4pm at Glasgow Women’s Library!
with readings from
Etzali Hernandez
Sandra Alland
and Gloria Dawson
🕸️💜📖
the launch will be held in the Glasgow Women’s Library Community Space, which is fully wheelchair accessible via ramp and lift. there are gender-neutral accessible toilets. performances will be through a microphone and texts will be projected onto the wall during performances.
i’m pleased to say that Zarf #13 is now available to order from zarfpoetry.tumblr.com !
with poetry by meenah williams, kashif sharma-patel, virna teixeira (translated by shelly bhoil), april hill, gemma jackson, jay g. ying, derawan rahmantavy, lisa samuels, jessica tillings, edmund hardy, jade mars, nell osborne, and mira mattar
– plus gloria dawson reviews caspar heinemann, kashif sharma-patel reviews sandeep parmar, nisha ramayya, and bhanu kapil, and colin lee marshall reviews aurelia guo.
as always it’s £2 inc p&p (£3 overseas), but if you don’t have the cash to spare drop me a line.
poetry reading announce! 7pm, Saturday 18 May, at Typewronger Books in Edinburgh w/ poems from Azad Ashim Sharma, Dominic Hale, Callie Gardner, and Gloria Dawson – £free! hope to see you there xxx