by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 26, 2021 | Reviews
The Bone that Sang by Claire Booker Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-912876-39-6 £6.00 Bold, inventive, metaphorically rich – Claire Booker’s second poetry pamphlet, The Bone that Sang, opens with a title poem that stakes out her poetic terrain. The symbolic...
by Helen Ivory | May 26, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Cutters It’s the clatter I hear first of metal tooth biting down scything sharp through the wildings. The most stupid way to die is flaying by hedge cutter. So I wave my arms and jump and the two farmboys with grins like soldiers pause the...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
I Claim This Sky All winter I have kept vigil on these lichen-licked branches, compacting myself like stone. I’ve laid out the bones of my dead, glued my bloodied edges back together, shredded my pages and fed them to the wind – a lost language...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 24, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Watching the Dead It’s how you remember him most. Under the lampshade with no sound, cobalt slip-ons angled by the chair, hands white as plugs (he’d always question the purpose of winter). It’s how you remember him most. Paints in a fossil box...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Finishing Touch God chars the edges of the day, the sky turns the colour of the sediment at the bottom of a bottle of cheap orange squash. I imagine it like tea-staining paper to make replicas of old treasure maps as a kid. I remember burning the...
