Slipped Skin by Katie Hale Leonard Cohen and of her first year

and of her first year in that world altered beyond recognition by a virus born into our lives at nearly the same time

the writer and artist Leonora Carrington wrote that her stomach was ‘the mirror of the earth’

the medieval polymath Ramon Llull

ruthlessly sharp

these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance

Slipped Skin by Katie Hale Leonard Cohen and of her first yearPublished 30th December 2025. Slipped Skin by Katie Hale is a tender, sensuous meditation on queerness, transformation, and the porous boundaries between land and sea, body and story. Braiding poetic narrative, essay and mythic retelling, the sequence reimagines the selkie as a figure of in betweenness, a creature of thresholds, shaped by longing, breath, and change. Hale's language is fluid and precise, attuned to the tensions of embodiment and the