WAR: 24-Hour Chapbook Challenge VII
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Released 21/01/24
The seventh instalment of our sporadic poetry challenge series: we send out a one-word prompt to participating poets, they reply back with a brand new poem, we collate and have it online, available to download in a free digital chapbook, all within 24 hours! 'War' is a simple word, but it delivers much. One can't help, upon saying it out loud, to associate it with so many recent images of the onslaughts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, delivered daily to our news channels. Even with war so present in our current lives, the word can still also conjure up images from history: holocausts, trenches, dog fights in the air and more, as well as personal conflicts and our own daily battles. The iconography of war, no matter where we are in the world, is indelibly printed on our consciousnesses. Our cover image is taken from the London Blitz during the Second World War. But it could easily be a street in modern day Gaza City, in Chernihiv, in Kyiv, in Al-Hudaydah. While reading the responses that our participating poets have offered, let us take a moment to consider the civilians of war, the ones whose words will not be heard today. 
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