Let your hands do what they must.
It is much the same — that carrot-sweetness
and wet touch. Hold a little sloppily, there you go.
Best done at night, when you’re hungry
and therefore most un-careful.
Best done in kitchens. There is a swift, melting quality
which looks more practised than it is.
It is very easy to learn.

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Anna Jones is a third-year English Lit student and poetry enthusiast. A regular on the Young Poets Network, she has been published online by The Poetry Society, and her poetry was used for the wellbeing project ‘Steph’s Poetry Space’ in schools across the country. In 2023, Anna was offered a place at the Tower Poetry Summer School, which hosted sixteen young poets at Christ Church College, Oxford, with the aim of developing their writing and critical skills. In 2024, she was published in Heroica’s debut anthology ‘Body Odyssey,’ which centred on the themes of girlhood, bodies, and belonging. Most recently Anna hosted a charity poetry slam with Store Bought Flowers, the Cardiff Uni zine.