We also have a set of video and audio readings going live on our instagram and facebook pages (and up on the website soon), including Loretta Riach reading one of their new poems from a Tove Jansson residency in Finland, with guest appearance by a very chill swan:

It was v v nice to get so many past Starling authors back together to reflect on 10 years of writing for the journal, so happy with how this turned out: www.starlingmag.com/issue-20/twe...

Also really really love Sara Al-Bahar's 'Our Father the Prophet' (and this reading that she did for the issue): soundcloud.com/starlingmag/...

There are more film shenanigans in Giselle den Breems beautiful 'Early spring: stretch marks': youtu.be/cPStjQTTMuU

a great, fragmentary poem from Alexandra Cherian, who also has a poem based on Alfred Hitchcock's Rope in the new issue: youtu.be/AKFzuqBwj7Q

And two incredible poems from Mauatua Fa’ara-Reynolds, making their Starling debut: www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/mau...

Three bangers from Ada Duffy, one of several of the 2025 @modernletters.bsky.social cohort in the new issue: www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/ada...

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Jackson McCarthy’s mysteries with Louise Glück, Emily Dickinson and W.H. Auden: www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/jac...

Hannah Ya-Jun Hsieh 謝亞君 on names, Nelly, and a cento made up of works by @chrisjtse.bsky.social, @erikkennedy.com, @hadassahgrace.bsky.social, Nina Mingya Powles and Homer: www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/han...