the edge of rhizome by Julie Laing aloud you create something beautiful and

you create something beautiful and wholly new that comes from within

is one of the prominent themes of her latest collection

Centering friendship and connection

Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections

They conjure an atmosphere of cinema noir

the edge of rhizome by Julie Laing aloud you create something beautiful andJulie Laing is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her first collection of visual poetry, some possible endings & beginnings, was published in 2026 with Art Riot Press and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, came out with Red Squirrel Press in 2025. She has been widely published and won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize and The Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022. Her poem livestream, hope street was selected as one of Scottish Poetry Librarys Best