Introduction
In the fourth issue of Young Ravens Literary Review, authors and artists explore the many forms of cyclicity in life: from the turning of the seasons and the quicksilver change of ice to water in the natural world, to the vinyl echoes of records caught in limbo as we decide what to discard and what to keep and which melody will go on.
Each of us yields to the sudden moments that demand our souls: grief at a dissolving marriage; joy at a violin strain; the warmth of strong, worn hands that we can no longer grasp but whose strength we carry inside our own spirits.
Of equal importance are disrupted cycles that deal with racism, societal injustice and the ineluctable cost of refusing to recognize climate change.
In a journey that spans the ages, we ask readers to imagine the first poet and the last robot to wonder at what it means to be alive on planet Earth.
Caught between the constant ebb and flow of change and decay, and always searching for a balance between who we were, who we are, and the person we wish to become, is the elusive heart of cyclicity.
Sarah Page & Elizabeth Pinborough,
Co-editors
In the fourth issue of Young Ravens Literary Review, authors and artists explore the many forms of cyclicity in life: from the turning of the seasons and the quicksilver change of ice to water in the natural world, to the vinyl echoes of records caught in limbo as we decide what to discard and what to keep and which melody will go on.
Each of us yields to the sudden moments that demand our souls: grief at a dissolving marriage; joy at a violin strain; the warmth of strong, worn hands that we can no longer grasp but whose strength we carry inside our own spirits.
Of equal importance are disrupted cycles that deal with racism, societal injustice and the ineluctable cost of refusing to recognize climate change.
In a journey that spans the ages, we ask readers to imagine the first poet and the last robot to wonder at what it means to be alive on planet Earth.
Caught between the constant ebb and flow of change and decay, and always searching for a balance between who we were, who we are, and the person we wish to become, is the elusive heart of cyclicity.
Sarah Page & Elizabeth Pinborough,
Co-editors