by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 18, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
grey pennant [as taken from Dulux Paint] speaks easy. vomits up love, that pigeon wing cootie catcher. how easy – run of garlic like a spat-out oyster on bruschetta. I snap the necks of all the men in my life and they fizz. fluster out like the...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 17, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Duplex: Horses after Jericho Brown Horse running wild through post code black spots hooves ringing out through sink bin streets echoing through the ginnel, the red brick streets my last address I saw wild horses my last address, horses, horses,...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 16, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Molehills Moles, my neighbour calls through a hole in the hedge the day we move in – we’ve got moles. I jump up and down on their molehills, he says. Doesn’t do any good, but it makes me feel better. Bin day’s Thursday – black bins this week,...
by Kate Birch | May 15, 2021 | News
WE’VE WON! Today Sabotage Reviews announced that Live From the Butchery, run in association with Ink Sweat & Tears, and co-hosted by Martin Figura, Helen Ivory and Kate Birch, had won the #SabAwards21 Best Regular Spoken Word Night and that is despite the...
by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Traffic Your name kicks my arse nearly as far as the roundabout where Jenny and Kim lounge on the grass trying to get a tan. Fate gave them their pasty skin, or their parents did anyway, emoting shut-eyed karaoke in the snug of their local...