Wet Grain Poetry

02/07/2024

Wet Grain 5: The Latinx Issue • October Gallery, London • 15th July at 7pm •

Readings from Patrizia Longhitano Juana Adcock Sim Pereira Madder Isabel del Rio Jose Buera & Adriana Diaz Enciso •

Free, ticketed:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wet-grain-the-british-latinx-issue-tickets-936541790707?aff=oddtdtcreator

Edited by Leo Boix Nathalie Teitler & me

11/11/2022

🦋NEW VIDEO: reads her poem, My Friend Had This Box, from issue three. Link in bio and viewable on Youtube https://youtu.be/J_qxIsRgEog

23/09/2022

We look forward to opening again for submissions in November!

Meantime have a look at our wonderful new website, where you can get copies of our latest issue and watch readings by past contributors.

https://www.wetgrainpoetry.com

05/09/2022

We'll be at the The Peckham Pelican on the 29th September to showcase the work of some of our excellent contributors!

16/07/2022

Issue Three now on sale!

With new work by Tessa Berring, Tawona Sithole, Niall Campbell, Alan Spence, Cecilia Woloch, David Ross Linklater, Carine Topal, Cheng Tim Tim and others!

Single copies are £7 *or* all three issues for £15.

Our website being under reconstruction, you can request one by emailing [email protected]

Alternatively, support indie bookshops and get yours at Typewronger Books or Good Press!

15/07/2022

Thanks to everyone who came to Good Press last night and to all who read! Copies of Issue Three will be available from tomorrow via our website.

All welcome to Typewronger this evening where we're joined by Tim Tim Cheng, Morag Smith, Tessa Berring, Alice Lannon, Cecilia Woloch, Carine Topal, and Allie Kerper. You can also zoom in on this link for 7pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wet-grain-issue-three-launch-edinburgh-tickets-377743680517

06/07/2022

All and everyone, warmly invited to the double launch of Wet Grain 3:

Thurs. 14th July: Good Press, Glasgow
https://www.facebook.com/events/1836276896704332/?ref=newsfeed

Fri. 15th July: Typewronger Books, Edinburgh

https://www.facebook.com/events/1175206206381473?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D

03/12/2021

Welcome to our guest editor for ISSUE THREE - Nasim Luczaj

So pleased to announce that Nasim Luczaj will be joining us to edit ISSUE THREE, which will be out this Spring.

Nasim Luczaj is a Glasgow-based poet and translator. She is the author of 'HIND MOUTH', a pamphlet for the Earthbound Poetry Series, and her work has appeared in the anthology 'the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene'. Her new pamphlet 'Enskyment' is forthcoming with OrangeApple Press, and keep your eyes peeled for a first full-length collection! A generous selection of her poems can also be read in ISSUE TWO of Wet Grain.

We're so excited to be working with her and can't wait to see what she'll bring to the magazine.

Keep those dextrous submissions coming!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 15TH JAN. '22

22/09/2021

Nasim Luczaj reads BREAK, SAY, & AJAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMClgvzcHdg

Delighted to showcase this filmed reading of Nasim performing her poems 'Break', 'Say' and 'Ajar' from issue two.

Nasim’s poems in issue two reflect her work as a producer of electronic music and life model, emerging from a poetics that it always synthesising, linguistically and conceptually agile, and questioning the many natures of conscious experience and the self in all its environments. Her pamphlet Hind Mouth is available with Earthbound. Her artist’s book SWAT SIGHT came out in 2019.

Issue #2 is out now. Read more by Nasim and many other wonderful writers: https://wetgrain.co.uk/

Nasim Luczaj reads some of her work from issue two of Wet Grain (available now: wetgrain.co.uk)Luczaj's pamphlet Hind Mouth is available with Earthbound. Her...

09/09/2021

A huge thanks to all our amazing readers on Tuesday night who helped us stook the latest of the wet sheaths!

We're so happy to announce that Issue Two of Wet Grain is now available to buy from our online shop, with poetry by Richie McCaffery Maria Rose Sledmere Richard Price Nasim Luczaj Liam Welsh Sylee Gore Alec Finlay and many many others. Each copy has the bonus of being an original lino print by the brilliant Andreas Christodoulidis.

Get your copy here (stores well in cool, dry conditions)

https://wetgrain.co.uk/

07/09/2021

Last chance to get tickets for our launch this evening. Come and listen to the brilliant poets joining us from around the UK and beyond:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wet-grain-two-launch-tickets-167030044359?fbclid=IwAR3y8PasGVqCzbPjyZn0Ne8a0-btNIGnusk83G5i5cTtvg99c4RJ_bzIoHY

Launch of issue two of Wet Grain, featuring Maria Sledmere, Richie McCaffery, Richard Price, Nasim Luczaj, and River Ellen MacAskill.

28/12/2020

Laura Wade is an award-winning visual artist and animator based in Edinburgh. She created the incredible lino cut for the cover of issue one.

We had the covers of our copies digitally-printed blank and used ink and a varnish to apply her design to each copy.

You can find out more about her and her work here:
https://lwadeillustration.myportfolio.com/

You can also pick up a copy of issue one and support the publication here for £5:
https://wetgrain.co.uk/buy

23/12/2020

Angus Reid translates Rimbaud’s ‘Sensation’

This translation of ‘Sensation’ for Wet Grain gives new elegiac significance to Rimbaud’s 1870 ode to youth and freedom. With a sensitivity to the voice and vision of the original, ‘Feeling’ invites us to ask what vital human qualities we take with us through life’s many departures.

Angus Reid is a Scottish artist, writer, and film-maker. Recent books of poetry include The Book of Days (2012) and The History of Art in 100 Limericks (2018)

You can read the translation along with other liberating poetry here for just £5: https://wetgrain.co.uk/buy

https://youtu.be/FFhhTLhSNSI

Scottish poet, artist and filmmaker Angus Reid performs his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's 'Sensation', published in Wet Grain Issue One.

21/12/2020

Kirsty Dunlop - I wanted so much just to be

Dunlop’s ‘I wanted so much just be,’ garners its gale force from the undulating metrics of a spring tide and sings of the dissolution of desire with the tones of its rising swell.

Kirsty Dunlop writes poetry, short fiction, electronic literature, and collaborative work. Recent work includes a broadside collaboration with the poet nicky melville, THE FACT THAT, forthcoming from GONG FARM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB2BhOVGKb0
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Kirsty Dunlop reads her poem 'I wanted so much just to be', published in WetGrain: Issue 1.©Kirsty DunlopWetGrain 2020

20/12/2020

Anthony Daly - -adreamandnow- | -before, between, and after a drink-

With their ear for vernacular and the sound prints of the idyl, Anthony Daly ’s poems for issue one become pastoral jam sessions, syncopated by the crack of hot wood and soloed over by the jack-knife vocals of wild children.

Daly calls his work slanted imagist. He has a collaborative pamphlet forthcoming with adjacent pineapple.

To read his work and that of loads of other unique and insightful poets, get a copy of issue one (w. one of a kind, handprinted cover artwork!) for just £5 here https://wetgrain.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaPsjoxBabs&feature=youtu.be

Anthony Daly reads his poems - adreamandnow - and - before, between, and after a drink - published in Wet Grain Issue One.© Anthony Daly - WetGrain 2020

18/12/2020

Elle Heedles - White Noise | Last Summer

We’re excited to mark the launch of Wet Grain Issue One with a series of filmed readings.

Elle Heedles’s poems scramble still moments with dazzling leaps of memory and the imagination. They thole the long grief, revel in ephemeral infatuation, and grapple with the involuntary jerks they bring to bear on perception.

Their poems have appeared in Pain, The Inkwell, adjacent pineapple, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in the Northwest Review and Popshot.

You can get your copy of issue one here:
https://wetgrain.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHGkQGLQNg&t=38s

Elle Heedles reads 'White Noise' and 'Last Summer' from Wet Grain Issue One.© Elle Heedles - WetGrain 2020

03/07/2020

Wet Grain is looking for submissions in all poetic forms for its first ever print-issue coming out this Autumn 2020. We are a Glasgow-based journal looking for wrought, honest new poetry. You can access our submission portal at http://wetgrain.co.uk/