the edge of rhizome by Julie Laing Lucy Dawkins testing the distance / between

testing the distance / between what I feel now and what I’m supposed to be

these poems map the brutal

from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty

through the gradual discovery of the world and its diversity

the edge of rhizome by Julie Laing Lucy Dawkins testing the distance / betweenJulie Laing is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her first collection of visual poetry, some possible endings & beginnings, was published in 2026 with Art Riot Press and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, came out with Red Squirrel Press in 2025. She has been widely published and won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize and The Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022. Her poem livestream, hope street was selected as one of Scottish Poetry Librarys Best