Celebrating relationships in Lapidus Magazine Issue Seven

As we celebrate the release of Issue Seven of the Lapidus Magazine, we also say a huge thank you to editors Alison Cable and Kate Poll, who are stepping down from their editorial roles.

We hope you’ll join us in thanking Alison and Kate for their extraordinary work in driving forward our members’ magazine. Issue Seven is available to read now.

At its heart, this issue is an invitation – to celebrate and reflect on our relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with the words we use to make sense of both.

The word relationship itself holds dynamism rather than a fixed bond. It is an ongoing act of relating, a MeWe, as Dan Siegel calls it, that lives in the space between. To be in relationship is to move, to respond, to be altered. It is a verb disguised as a noun.

Our contributors explore many textures of that verb: between partners and friends, parents and children, writers and readers, practitioners and participants; between the self and memory, the self and the body, the self and the page. We encounter relationship as attachment and rupture, as dialogue and silence, as care, conflict, repair, and reimagining. Again and again, writing, voice, and mark-making appear not only as ways of describing relationship but as relationship in itself: a living exchange between inner and outer worlds, through which we come to know ourselves and each other more fully.

we are moved by the breadth and generosity of what has been shared in these pages. Submissions have arrived from across continents, representing the quiet labour that sustains this field: workshops held in community centres and prisons, research undertaken in universities, poems written in the margins of difficult days. Editing, too, is a form of relationship – shaping without imposing, clarifying without erasing voice, holding a frame so others’ words can stand.

After four issues over two years, we are stepping back from our editorial roles with deep gratitude and a sense of continuity rather than closure. We remain committed members of this community of practitioners, writers, and thinkers, and we look forward to seeing how the next editors develop this magazine further. If you have wondered whether you might contribute – as writer, thinker, or editor – we warmly encourage you to get in touch.

We hope this issue invites you into your own reflections on relationship: where it sustains you, where it asks something of you, where it might yet be rewritten. And where your voice doesn’t yet appear in these pages, may it find its way here.

With warm thanks,

Alison Cable and Kate Poll

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