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[zarfpoetry]

dear subscribers and friends,

zarf #15 is here!! featuring poems from Zein Sa’dedin, Tessa Berring, Rosa Jones, Nehaal Bajwa, Millie Rosette, Memoona Zahid, Alexa Winik, Anna Cheung, Asta Kinch, & Aisha Farr, plus Matthew Travers on Sean Bonney and Flo Taylor on Dena Igusti. as promised, this is a digital and completely free edition available at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/zarchive – it also comes in print-your-own-pamphlet format with instructions for assembly.

this will be the last issue of Zarf magazine. thank you to everyone who has read us over the last five years, sent in work, and passed it from hand to hand, and especially those on this list who encouraged and supported. Zarf Editions, our pamphlet press, is still up and running at zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/pamphlets AND many of our past titles are now available as ebooks at gumroad.com/zarfeditions for pay-what-you-can.

so long

callie

[theimportanceofbeingaloof]

For Sale!

My new poetry pamphlet is out today. Hip hip hooray!

Featuring: apricot lakes, grace kelly’s eyes, polar bears, tiresome police, dolly mix ice cream, tigers in lemon grass, cherry cola sunsets, opal mines and more!

Copies are available here

These are the back cover comments (in full):

‘Collectively, the poems in Santa Lucía evoke a wry and inquisitive travelogue, voicing the experiences and observations of a British expat in Southern Spain. In poems that bear hints of Ashbery, and the poeticised musings of Cioran and Camus, Baylis weighs mortality, commerce and connection against their ability to provide meaning in the face of “an emptiness that goes on forever” (‘tropical storm’). Here, in the midst of moral anguish, seaside tranquillity is only a line break away: “the chameleon twitches on the cross/ in the harbour” (‘tropical storm’). And despite the dankness of “the city [that] is no longer real”, the central speaker briefly finds euphoric versions of themselves in “bar s of morning light” (‘xyla’) and “[getting] high/ smoke ghosting over graveyards” (‘cultural centre’). Throughout Santa Lucía, Baylis demonstrates a considerable breadth of thought, an adventurous approach to syntax, and a flair for thematic and linguistic echoes, which ultimately result in a sincere and incisive pamphlet.’

Isabelle Baafi

'Santa Lucia is a surrealist cultural vision of a world where giggling dolphins and despotic moths intermingle. Charlie Baylis' poetry is alive with the music of absurdity, and awake to the poetic subtleties of life. An outstanding pamphlet.’

Aaron Kent

‘In this hypnotising and arresting pamphlet, Charlie Baylis gives us poems which transport us to Santa Lucia, where we are encapsulated by a vivid and various life. With chameleons, Elvis Presley, apricot lakes and an existential questioning which permeates throughout, these poems have a restless quality, taking us into moments as they happen. Santa Lucia is divided into two parts, day and night, surprising and delighting in their dream-like quality while maintaining their lucidity. Often reminiscent of Frank O’Hara’s lyric, Baylis is a poet whose agile language makes this pamphlet worth returning to multiple times, if not just to revisit the ‘ballerina pirouetting with a rhino’ and ‘death performing savage miracles’.’

Memoona Zahid

[adoggysworld]

Adorable service dog cuddles up to her favourite Disney character

Adorable service dog cuddles up to her favourite Disney character

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Disney is a wonderful place where dreams come true, and this is definitely the case for this adorable Golden Retriever, Nala the service dog!

By Memoona Zahid, 5 Oct 2019

Disneyworld, a magical place in Orlando, Florida, is known to make wishes come true, no matter who you are.

Cuddly friends

In this cute video, which you can watch below, Nala, a service…

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When owner discovers why his dog sits in driveway every day, he can't believe it

When owner discovers why his dog sits in driveway every day, he can’t believe it

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Pippin, a 6-year-old Golden Retriever, who lives in South Carolina with her owner, Kayla, truly is a man’s best friend and shows that dogs have hearts of gold.

By Memoona Zahid, 28 Sep 2019

The scene takes place in a very quiet street. Pippin sits still, waiting and watching… but for what?

A few seconds pass, and all of a sudden, the dog gets up and her…