Ceris Aston

We prowl the jukebox jungle, eyes reflective as a moon-chromed hubcap, two-tone roundels for our ears.

Oh, that's a good question.

I should probably say at this point we're sort of

We're vaguely rebranding because Keris made a very good point that we are whimsical, but we're more than that.

But I think originally what we wanted to do and what we still very much want to do is have something which is a very beautiful object and something which you don't look at it and think, oh my goodness, it's a giant poetry book.

And I think that poetry and literature can be quite scary in a way.

A lot of people are put off by it and we wanted to have something that was lighthearted and drew people in

And I suppose what's whimsical about us really is actually not necessarily the magazine itself, but sort of everything around it.

The emails that we send to contributors, our social media, we work really hard to have a particular...

very light-hearted touch and we have lovely bizarre relationships with contributors as a result of that.

I think also to begin with we thought that the magazine would be more whimsical sort of a space for the poems that didn't necessarily fit in in other places or that sort of had a particular life of their own weren't too staid or serious.

Which is definitely still the case and we've always we have a spot right at the

For our first issue, we got an email from a young writer that we know, just before the deadline, saying, I've been trying to do something for this, and I couldn't come up with anything for the theme, which was Fairy Tales Retold, and I've come up with this, but it's not very good, and you don't have to take it, and it's fine.

And we read it, and it was Ugly Sister Lonely Heart by Leah Sanders.

Ugly sister would like to meet handsome prince who still believes in the magic of romance.

Must be willing to engage in dancing and general gallantry.

If you like pumpkin pies and staying out after midnight, get in touch.

No shoe fetishists.

And we loved it.

And we're like, yes, this is definitely going in and this is going to be the first piece in the issue.