Metamorphosis
Publication date: 14 December 2025
The third volume of Flesh and Parchment, ‘Metamorphosis’, turns its attention to the thresholds where we split, shed, molt, and emerge. These pages chart the unstable terrains of becoming — transformations subtle and seismic, chosen and imposed. Metamorphosis is not merely change; it is the disquieting moment of unmaking, the strange newness that follows.
This issue gathers poetry, essays, visual works, and experimental forms that grapple with transitions of body, self, memory, and world. Some pieces embrace the promise of evolution; others linger in the rawness of rupture. All speak in the language of flux, uncertainty, and the restless motion of things becoming otherwise.
Edited by: Toni Burns and Frankie Reed