New Online Quarterly

 

The Pickled Body  is a new online poetry magazine.
The theme for issue one is The Red Shoes.

 The call out alone is inspiring  - here's what they have to say....

 

 

'We love Kate Bush’s 1993 album The Red Shoes, inspired by a film we adore, Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 masterpiece – itself inspired by Andersen’s timeless fairytale. Among other things, The Red Shoes explores the conflict between dedicating your life to art and allowing the quotidian world to stop the dance.

 

So we want poems that possess or are possessed. Poems that move, that ache, that vibrate with the same energy as the Powell and Pressburger film or the music of Kate Bush. Poems that ask “have you ever seen a picture of Jesus laughing” (Why Should I Love You?); that say “it’s all right, I’ll come round when you’re not in” (You’re the One); that whisper: “just being alive, it can really hurt” (Moments of Pleasure); that “split me open with devotion” (Eat the Music). Poems that sing powerfully with the fire in your own life when you create, and you find those shoes impossible to take off.

 

You write because you must – but at what cost? Show us what possesses you. Send up to three of your best to thepickledbody@gmail.com by September 30th. As for wearing red shoes while composing – we’d particularly like to receive poems written while wearing nothing else.'