Issue Seven, Spring 2026

Edinburgh, London, Polkadot Blooms

The nerves of anticipation have given way to the buzz of a quiet satisfaction. Issue Seven is well and truly out in the world! So much thanks is due to our contributors, readers, and all who submitted work for us to read. What a gift to be able to publish it, launch so joyfully and see the spring in together. 

At Typewronger the Thursday before last we heard Iona Lee read from her Life Drawing sequence straight from the notebook; M. Elizabeth Scott drew water from her beautifully paradoxical ‘The Well’; Meredith MacLeod Davidson shared from their luminous transpiration, out last year with ignitionpress; and George Finlay Ramsay delivered his performance lecture ‘Empedocles Syndrome’. 

Being footloose by trade as well as by nature, our second launch took place last Tuesday on a sunny evening at Housmans Bookshop in King’s Cross. Jacob James Hurley treated us with an unforgettable caterpillar poem, and we were spellbound by Kevin Cormack’s poetic account of food poisoning at sea. Lucy Lovell read her poem dedicated to Dom Hale as well as Dom’s piece in the current issue. William Wyld, who is about to publish The Butterfly Bush with Little Betty, read out the issue’s final poem. Rupa Latif Rupa sadly couldn’t join us due to a tube strike, but we did our best to do her piece justice. We also got to see the originals of Vita Lerche’s drawings of our windows featured within the issue, which she drew in her notebook during a trip to Seoul and brought to the launch.

Sheaves unbound

Until the end of May, copies come with a free sheaf: our origami broadside featuring poetry by Elle Heedles & Ken Cockburn and prose by Helena Fornells Nadal & Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. Plus two poetry postcards printed on seeded paper by Typewronger Books. 

Purchasing the new issue also entitles you to a 66.666% discount on Issue Six, featuring Małgorzata Lebda, John Glenday, Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe, and Dan Power. Two issues for £20. 

Issue Seven

Purchase a copy of Issue Seven and Issue Six for £20 and recieve a free copy of our sheaf of poetry

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The pressed jacaranda blooms you’ll find inside your copy were pressed into a homeopathy textbook and came out covered in dots. We gathered them from the broken pavement as delicately as possible to preserve their veined anatomy, but after three weeks of keeping them between the ailments and their remedies we discovered the marks we’d made without touching them. The kitchen roll used to dry them had imprinted them with its texture. Oh well, we slotted them in anyway, lovers of ephemera that we are. Enough to have kept something of their lavenderish colour, their shape. Next time we’ll use sugar paper.

If you'd like to find yourself between the pages of Issue Eight, submissions are open 1st – 31 May. Send up to five pages of poetry or an essay of up to 3000 words to submissions@wetgrainpoetry.co.uk.

Thank you to those who came to Typewronger. Thank you to those who worked around the tube strikes to come to Housmans, and to the strikers too. Blossom covers the Meadows again and already we look forward to the Californian lilac dropping its bloom, making blue bush-shadows on the pavement.  

Real flowers,

Patrick & Nasim