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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Short Poems Feature I

by | November 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

Our first Short Poems Feature with poetry from Sylvie Jane Lewis and Joanna Woznicka.

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Julia Biggs

by | November 27, 2023 | Featured, Word & Image | 0 Comments

Word & Image, Julia Biggs
all beautiful things begin to pall, if

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Jemma Walsh

by | November 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

    Siberian Larkspur     Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways Magazine and elsewhere.
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Cormac Culkeen

by | November 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

Stay silent

under eyes of stars

quietly watching,

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Rebecca Gethin

by | November 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

I won’t forget her on the beach – fur the colours of sand.
We wouldn’t have spotted her were it not for the jiggle

of her gait, the turn of her head with ears pricked,
the spine’s taut bow and torque of her hocks.

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Previously featured

Jemma Walsh

by | Nov 27, 2023

    Siberian Larkspur     Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...

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Recent Prose

From the Archives: Chaucer Cameron on Halloween

      Cellar Stories: Ash & Elder Sunday afternoon there’s always roast dinner. Then mum and dad go to church. The twins stay and wash dishes. Elder-twin picks up a plastic bag with unused Brussels sprouts inside. The cellar door...
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Arthur Mandal

      Childhood’s Cave The worst times were Thursdays. They were the weekly meetings, when things were assigned, calculated, declared. A reprimand or an insult always brought her father home in the worst of moods. Her mother, on...
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Bethany W Pope

      A Martian Named Smith A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. -Robert Heinlein The last time we spoke, you were working for an off-brand convenience...
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Daniel Addercouth

      Two Halves You won’t want to take the locket, but your twin sister Agnes will insist, pressing it into your hand as she stands on the doorstep of your cottage, unwilling to enter. You’re supposed to take turns looking after it,...
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James Young

      Quince There is a quince tree in the Alice Munro short story The Moons of Jupiter, and also in the poem “Lunch With Pancho Villa” by Paul Muldoon. In the novel The Love of Singular Men, by the Brazilian author Victor Heringer,...
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Recent Haiku

Joshua St. Claire

      Two Haiku green spruce cone a globe of sap slips below the horizon * bloom of jellyfish a thousand beach umbrellas open         close     Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a financial director for a...
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Rachel Spence

      Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February - wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March - willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by...
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Chen-ou Liu

  tongues of fire ... the things I take the things it takes * drawn-out yawn . . . morning sunlight tangled in my old dog's tail * beach sunset paints her face wine-red before love after love * around a bend in the wooded trail giant cliff...
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Debbie Strange.

a new year how long before I stop missing you Haiku originally published in #FemkuMag 9, 2019.   Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language of Loss: Haiku...
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For our 12 days of Christmas feature we bring you Word & Image from Debbie Strange.

sudden flurries the Christmas star inside every persimmon Haiku written originally for Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2020 Holiday Celebration Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her...
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News

Word & Image

Julia Biggs

Nov 27, 2023

At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance...

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Filmpoems

Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Short Poems Feature I

by | November 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

Our first Short Poems Feature with poetry from Sylvie Jane Lewis and Joanna Woznicka.

Read More

Julia Biggs

by | November 27, 2023 | Featured, Word & Image | 0 Comments

Word & Image, Julia Biggs
all beautiful things begin to pall, if

Read More

Jemma Walsh

by | November 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

    Siberian Larkspur     Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways Magazine and elsewhere.
Read More

Cormac Culkeen

by | November 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

Stay silent

under eyes of stars

quietly watching,

Read More

Rebecca Gethin

by | November 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry | 0 Comments

I won’t forget her on the beach – fur the colours of sand.
We wouldn’t have spotted her were it not for the jiggle

of her gait, the turn of her head with ears pricked,
the spine’s taut bow and torque of her hocks.

Read More

News

Word & Image

Julia Biggs

Nov 27, 2023

At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance...

read more

Filmpoems

Previously featured

Jemma Walsh

by | Nov 27, 2023

    Siberian Larkspur     Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...

read more

Recent Prose

From the Archives: Chaucer Cameron on Halloween

      Cellar Stories: Ash & Elder Sunday afternoon there’s always roast dinner. Then mum and dad go to church. The twins stay and wash dishes. Elder-twin picks up a plastic bag with unused Brussels sprouts inside. The cellar door...
Read More

Arthur Mandal

      Childhood’s Cave The worst times were Thursdays. They were the weekly meetings, when things were assigned, calculated, declared. A reprimand or an insult always brought her father home in the worst of moods. Her mother, on...
Read More

Bethany W Pope

      A Martian Named Smith A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. -Robert Heinlein The last time we spoke, you were working for an off-brand convenience...
Read More

Daniel Addercouth

      Two Halves You won’t want to take the locket, but your twin sister Agnes will insist, pressing it into your hand as she stands on the doorstep of your cottage, unwilling to enter. You’re supposed to take turns looking after it,...
Read More

James Young

      Quince There is a quince tree in the Alice Munro short story The Moons of Jupiter, and also in the poem “Lunch With Pancho Villa” by Paul Muldoon. In the novel The Love of Singular Men, by the Brazilian author Victor Heringer,...
Read More

Recent Haiku

Joshua St. Claire

      Two Haiku green spruce cone a globe of sap slips below the horizon * bloom of jellyfish a thousand beach umbrellas open         close     Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a financial director for a...
Read More

Rachel Spence

      Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February - wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March - willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by...
Read More

Chen-ou Liu

  tongues of fire ... the things I take the things it takes * drawn-out yawn . . . morning sunlight tangled in my old dog's tail * beach sunset paints her face wine-red before love after love * around a bend in the wooded trail giant cliff...
Read More

Debbie Strange.

a new year how long before I stop missing you Haiku originally published in #FemkuMag 9, 2019.   Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language of Loss: Haiku...
Read More

For our 12 days of Christmas feature we bring you Word & Image from Debbie Strange.

sudden flurries the Christmas star inside every persimmon Haiku written originally for Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2020 Holiday Celebration Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her...
Read More

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