‘I feed the birds / before I feed myself.’
New poetry by Luciana Francis.
Poetry | Even My Portraitist by Sylee Gore
‘Like clouds, I take my colour from the air.’
New poetry from Sylee Gore.
Poetry | Hit me with your rhythm stick by Rachel Burns
‘Dad drinks a pint of Newcastle Brown
feet sticking to the floor,
the room thick with fag smoke.
Dad 70’s cool, beard & sideburns & swagger.’
New poetry by Rachel Burns.
Poetry | If you look closely by Tim Relf
‘everything is muddled, everything is metaphor.’
New poetry by Tim Relf.
Poetry | Dansette by Nicky Kippax
. Nicky Kippax Dansette . Grandad’s pride and joy, black kit set square in a red box – glossy handle…
Poetry | Message by Imogen Wade
Imogen Wade Message . . Sometimes we are insects, communicating with each other from opposite ends of a vast yellow…
Poetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown
Jessa Brown French Lessons . . some of our best talks were in French, imperfect [,] tense, and almost crying…
Poetry | The Divine Comedy as Jazz Piece by Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson The Divine Comedy as Jazz Piece Love which quickly takes a gentle heart, took him for my fair…
Poetry | Madroño by Joana Urtasun
Joana Urtasun Madroño . . Now that I’m in Madrid I can think and the city hiccups under my feet…
Poetry | Mortgage by Rachel Coventry
Rachel Coventry Mortgage . .I worked three days in the local shop to make the criteria for a mortgage. Sometimes,…
Poetry | Woman at a Window by Michael Naghten Shanks
Michael Naghten Shanks Woman at a Window …………after Caspar David Friedrich . . She is composed . as he composes…
Poetry | Blessing by Clare Martin
Clare Martin Blessing . . …has nested in you. Hatched, the chick levers out every unborn egg you’d been tending…
Poetry | Two Poems by Vasiliki Albedo
Vasiliki Albedo Two Poems . . Bitter . My mother and I sit at a hotel café. Neither of us…
Poetry | This Orphan Life by Damian Balassone
‘I spent my life kissing strangers on New Year’s Eve.’
New poetry by Damian Balassone.
Poetry | Birds Are the Things With Feathers by Colin Bramwell
Colin Bramwell BIRDS ARE THE THINGS WITH FEATHERS .I’ve always loved an orthodoxy, but the older I got the more…
Poetry | Two Poems by Natalie Perman
Natalie Perman Two Poems . . the end of doubting thomas . I would not believe the boneless hole in…
Poetry | Two Poems by Lauren Garland
Lauren Garland Two Poems . . Shadow Sonnet . In lampless rooms and on moonless nights we stand dead still,…
Poetry | Two Poems by Özge Lena
Özge Lena Two Poems . . Revenge is a Hot Dish It is said that if you upset a weaselit…
Poetry | Mark Fisher at the Lectern by Sean Ashton
Sean Ashton Mark Fisher at the Lectern Your audience had a grapevine feel, a cross–faculty aura,an academic moshpit of thinkers,…
Poetry | Garfield Minus Garfield by Amorak Huey
Amorak Huey Garfield Minus Garfield It has become a thing that every so often in America the romantic texts and…
Poetry | Tony by Gráinne Condron
Gráinne Condron Tony . After ‘Artificial Intelligence for Dummies’, ‘Klara and the Sun’, and a ‘Parent’s Guide to High-Functioning Autism…
Poetry | The Warning by HLR
HLR The Warning Feebly dragging a brush over your molars,you spot, for the first time ever, the warning printed on…
Poetry | Two Poems by Beattie
Beattie Two Poems . . House The solicitor is firstto tell me: I have inherited my father’spassion for mechanical thinking…
Poetry | Three Poems by Jack Houston
Jack Houston Three Poems Grrrrreat just do it good things come to those who wait it’s good to talk…