Phyllis Konieczko: "At Dawn"
"Fatal words. Cruel destiny. Why, oh why did she ask the boy to accompany her to her chambers? Did she not know that the male sex causes naught but havoc and should best be kept in cages?"
Lola Gabellini-Fava: A Question of Essence
Had the entirety of Woolf Works kept this creative distance from its source, I might have come away from the performance with a sense that Woolf had been granted some kind of poetic justice. Yet in edging closer and closer to its point of reference as it went on, the piece ends up ironically silencing the very thing it seeks to both celebrate and animate.
William Kherbek: Three Poems
"It was always just | | An affectation, you say, portending something while delivering | The lowest feasible return"
Jacob Burgess Rollo: Four Poems
"This is what I say when, really, I want to hold you | like a vigil, in which nobody actually touches"
Henry Broome: Wrapping wrapped in wrapping
A review of COOP: A Novelette (2025) by Nida Sajid.
Olivia Calderón: Three Poems
"the rusty return | of a love divine."
Karl O'Hanlon: from Herron's Dream Diary
"Dalí in a diving suit, lecturing in flamboyant Catalan, | grasping two borzois and a billiard cue"
Joanna Pidcock: The Doom Squad
"People who work with or in AI seem enthralled by it, and in conversation are often breathlessly delighted by its possibilities and awed by its power. As such an assumption is often made that other people will also find it interesting."
Sarah Fletcher: 'Life, friends, is boring—’
"John Berryman’s speaker is relatable in his short attention span. Nothing can snag his interest. He acknowledges the greatness of the physical world: ‘the sky flashes | the great sea yearns’. He has been told to touch grass and found it no more green than he had hoped."
Ellen Dillon: Six Poems
"I wanted to coil those entrails at your feet for anthropomantic | purposes, but you were watching football"
Nick Bartlett: Knowing One's Place
A review of Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework (2025).
Monica Kam: l o s t
"In wet clothes we drove through Paris."
Reprinted from Issue 8.
Helena Aeberli: The Teller and the Tale
Helena Aeberli reviews Thea Lenarduzzi's The Tower (2025).
Ruby Lawrence: Two Poems
" Inhale sorrow, composted | with apricots. Blame less the apples, falling early."
The Lure of Space: Imogen Cassels in conversation with Will Burns
An interview with the poet Imogen Cassels, from Issue 8
Ginny Darke: Excerpts from Poison Centre
"symptoms include | dissociation from remembered gestures | involuntary repetition of song lyrics you never liked"
Cole Denyer: Three Poems
"Karl-Marx Grave labubu dolorem | in my linear city"
Still Point Issue 8 Launch
27/10/2025
Helena Aeberli: The Caryatid Manifesto
"How can the artist re-create the caryatid, who volunteers herself willingly for pain, passively smiling beneath her heavy weight? . . . How to free the caryatid from her immanence, her servitude? Her marble-flesh paradoxical putty, an offering, an Othering, the serenity of her Mona Lisa smile. How to armour the armless to carve her own angel free?"
Tom Branfoot: from 'That x is not a given'
Excerpts from a new long poem by Tom Branfoot.
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