CONTRIBUTORS

Rachael Boast

Rachael Boast's recent publications include Hotel Raphael (Picador, 2021) and TIMESLIPS (Clutag Press, 2024). She is editor of Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2025), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Suffolk, UK.

Ass

From the Pyrenees to Inisherin, from Inisherin to Shalem, emissary of burden, holier than humans – Bel-shar-uzur, ur-star of those who carry an unkind weight at random, not because they choose to but because they can do and do so …

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