Afterbody by Medha Singh Helen Calcutt from the Norse word Sund

from the Norse word Sund

This is the self-defeating shout of the guards in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi

two creatures whose overlapping narratives echo the double note of the bird’s cry

’ Malika Booker

So hang your stockings

Afterbody by Medha Singh Helen Calcutt from the Norse word SundMedha Singhs poems deal with grief, absence, love and loss, often engaging with the concrete and small as a funnel for the larger ideas that govern us. Her work relies on image and music more than movement and action, which is really a way of thinking of identity and place as rooted in ones experience of language the sounds inside the voice of your mother, the words on pages of school books all have a way of affecting the internal music of our