Issue III: playlist

Alongside the mood boards created last week, our editor has also created a Spotify playlist to accompany Issue III. The playlist is public and you can listen to it here. It has been curated to be listened to in order but, of course, feel free to dip in and out of it as you please. … Continue reading Issue III: playlist →

Issue III: mood boards

The submission deadline for Issue III: hestia (hearth & home) is August 20th. Below are three mood boards which are just a springboard to inspire you. The second one includes a painting by Jean Raoux (Vestal Virgin) and the sculpture is by Raffaele Monti. Read more about the theme for Issue III here and remember … Continue reading Issue III: mood boards →

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Issue III: hestia (hearth & home)

Submissions are now open for Free Verse Revolution’s third issue of 2021! Issue III will be centred around the goddess Hestia (Vesta), home, belonging, heart(h), family and our foundations. Hestia was the guardian of the home, the family and the state. She refused to be married and stayed a virgin goddess, seen as the centre … Continue reading Issue III: hestia (hearth & home) →

Watch it burn – Syl

Watch it burnShe said to himAnd with thatThey watched the bridge go up in flamesVowing never to returnTheir love was at the point of no returnAnd they would let nothing keep them apart Written in response to Prompt Challenge #3 - Watch it burn

erosion by mbrazfieldm

my roots never grewi stayed for a little whilethen climbed on the first windthat blew through this soul of sandmy grains turned pale graytumbling through this earthen hourglassalone in the company of drovesof other discarded lonely vagabondsfrom what i gatheredlove had stopped rooting at the duneswhen i finally got there Written in response to … Continue reading erosion by mbrazfieldm →

(Let me in! Let me out!) – may hem

Would that places and timehave belongings,I would be wherever I longBut only people draw linesto define in or outWith a verb to invertroles and blameIn belonging, we transferthe subject to the objectand turn choiceto a passive plea Written in response to Prompt Challenge #1

Prompt challenge #3

In the lead up to Issue III's theme announcement on Sunday, 4th July, we are releasing three prompts this week which are linked in some way to the upcoming issue. These prompts can be used to inspire poetry, prose, photography & art. Our top three favourites will be shared on the blog next week! Post … Continue reading Prompt challenge #3 →

Prompt challenge #2

Prompt challenge #1

Issue II features Dee Li

Eureka 13,000 years ago, a mother held Her child on her hip as it pressed Small fingers on firelit walls, Pressed until they yielded, until They were remade in its image In the last gulping bowels of tree Kind, a man stares down a scope At a stumbling doe and it is holy, This … Continue reading Issue II features Dee Li →