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Shastra Deo
The Hanging On
First day. My father tracking one axis deer. Tomorrow morning a fallow. Come evening I’ll make fire and char the meat for eating. My hands are good at that now. Turning one thing to another. I want to describe how …
Posted in 107: LIMINAL
Tagged Shastra Deo
Walkthrough
Find a centuries-old oak. To walk there will be slow work. Listen. Kill three wolves. There will always be wolves. Kill the man who wears a wolf pelt on his back. Enter the cave mouth and follow the flooded dirt …
Posted in 102: GAME
Tagged Shastra Deo
Love Carefully
Studies have been done on the impulse found within children to wave off morning trains south bound to elsewhere goodbye, you were here for only a moment, and by noon we’ll have forgotten you, goodbye, goodbye I want to know …
Posted in TMLYMI v4
Tagged Shastra Deo
Tell Me Like You Mean It 4
With the glorious task of commissioning writers for a new collection of sincere, heartfelt writing for Tell Me Like You Mean It volume 4, I found it took longer than usual.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Amelia Zhou, Anita Solak, Arben Dzika, Bobuq Sayed, Dominic Symes, Emma Rayward, Hannah Donnelly, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Kaya Lattimore, Kiki Amberber, Lily Cameron, Lucy Van, Mitch Tomas Cave, Panda Wong, Rickiesha Deegan, Riley Daisy Frances, Shastra Deo, Sophie Rasic, Susie Anderson
Concerning Divination (2)
For most of my life I’ve been right about omens. Salt, ravens. Red skies at morning. Rocks thrown against the wind. A six pack ring found in the vicinity of a sparrow’s nest suggests three loves before marriage. A robin’s …
Posted in 95: EARTH
Tagged Shastra Deo
Review Short: Shastra Deo’s The Agonist
Shastra Deo’s first volume of poetry, The Agonist contains many poems about corporeal life, and about the separation of bodies, problematising the connections between body and thought. The poems often turn the inside out, as it were, opening up a poetic anatomy of internal organs and interior life.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Paul Hetherington, Shastra Deo
गुम; or, Lexical Gaps
सपना /sapna/ My dreams, in colour. My skin drips melanin and no one tells me I have a beautiful name. I have no country of origin and I cannot be accused of being articulate. याद /yaad/ My childhood, remembered: mouths …
Posted in 78: CONFESSION
Tagged Shastra Deo
