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Mugwort Magazine

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An online lit mag from the edges. Edited by @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social Spectral & Strange out now. Season 3: Volume 1 out now. Submissions closed. mugwortmag.wordpress.com

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you to all who sent writing and art for Spectral & Strange! Submissions for the special issue are now closed. I'll be reading and responding to all of your otherworldly winter work from today, but please bear with me - it could take a few weeks to answer everyone (and I do answer everyone).

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Ellen Forkin@ellenforkin.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a piece, ‘Snapshot’, in the magical Mugwort Magazine! My haibun is all about the lovely crows of Orkney 🖤 #Writing #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Orkney #LitMag

Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Season 2: Volume 1 is out now! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s... You’ll find plants, birds, the sea, holidays... & of course, the edges: the shifting borders between the human & non-human, the urban & the wild, this world & others. We hope you have a beautiful journey through each one. 🌿

Ben Banyard@benbanyard.bsky.social · last yr.

My poem "Hippy Market", about a visit to Es Cana in Ibiza, has found a lovely home in Mugwort Magazine today. Many thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social for choosing it.

Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Season 2: Volume 1 is out now! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s... You’ll find plants, birds, the sea, holidays... & of course, the edges: the shifting borders between the human & non-human, the urban & the wild, this world & others. We hope you have a beautiful journey through each one. 🌿

Antonia Kearton@antoniakearton.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm really pleased that my poem "What you should do is this" has found a home in Mugwort Magazine, along with an enticing host of other poems by other poets. Do have a look!

Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Season 2: Volume 1 is out now! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s... You’ll find plants, birds, the sea, holidays... & of course, the edges: the shifting borders between the human & non-human, the urban & the wild, this world & others. We hope you have a beautiful journey through each one. 🌿

Spangle@spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very happy to have a poem in Mugwort Magazine. Thank you @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social Lots of great work in this beauty 💚

Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Season 2: Volume 1 is out now! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s... You’ll find plants, birds, the sea, holidays... & of course, the edges: the shifting borders between the human & non-human, the urban & the wild, this world & others. We hope you have a beautiful journey through each one. 🌿

Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello writers! I originally hoped to respond to all subs by 1/7, but that's tomorrow & I'm still reading submissions. We've received more for Season 2 than for Season 1 - a beautiful problem to have, but it means I underestimated how long it would take to respond. I'll reply by this weekend! 💚

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

And our final poem of 2025: Season 1 here at Mugwort Magazine is the beautiful 'Night Bounty: 10th April' by Angela Washington. We think it's a lovely ending to this instalment of Mugwort!

Night Bounty: 10th April by Angela Washington

Three calves and a half dozen lambs today’s tally from my daily fix of fresh air past a straggle of houses on the short length of narrow limestone that ambles past headstones as they contemplate the clouds smell the sea in their cradle of hazy Kerry hills.

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Come with us 'Into the Woods' through this wonderful poetry and art by Teika Marija Smits.

Into the Woods: Poetry & Art by Teika Marija Smits

Sometimes, a storycalls me to go deepinto the forest of my psyche. I prevaricate, procrastinate;skirt around the bordersof those dark, enchanted woods do anything but stirthe monstrous shadowsfrom their slumber. For if I wake them,I must write them –ugliness and shame and pain and all. I dare not expose them. Myself.(Though the best kind of writing…

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Our first of two posts today is this beautiful essay on grief, 'Wracklines' by R C Birchley.

Wracklines by R C Birchley

Wracklines: Taming the Tides (of Grief) ‘Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter how hard you rub at the charcoal lines. You are changed utterly, and your personal geography becomes yours and yours only’.

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

This fantastic poem, 'Endurance in the Time of Covid' by Michael Durack, looks at isolation and survival at two rather different historical points: the coronavirus lockdowns of five years ago, and the Antarctic expedition of the ship Endurance and her crew in the 1910s.

Endurance in the Time of Covid by Michael Durack

Three weeks of social-distancing, self-isolationand talking up our spirit of endurance;Shackleton’s Endurance sailed for forty-five daysbefore coming a cropper in Antarctic ice.

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Mugwort Magazine@mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

We love the rich imagery in 'Allegro', a beautifully layered poem of place by Sheikha A., and we hope you enjoy it, too.

Allegro by Sheikha A.

Grief is the mother of voyages. There are cities of grief, There are cities of joy, There are deserts filled with wandering bones, - Cities by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun Bilaad, tell me how your hips burntwearing the belly belt of a lasciviousdancer, as her gold coins sang a tuneto elude your sensibilities; tell me ofthe tribe throne you capitulated for her.

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