by Desree | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
It didn’t make me a woman darkened school skirt pleats the pungent smell of loss this initiation a twelve year olds guide to becoming ashamed it didn’t make me weak they...
by Kate Birch | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, News
Whilst many people view the trade in enslaved people as something which took place along the so-called ‘Middle Passage’ between Africa and the Americas, between the 1650s and 1780s many hundreds of enslaved people were brought to London. Most were African although a...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured
Family Tree Health Plan Blossomy buds circulate, fervid. Scarlet inertia steams past panacea from saps as unction. Closure was mental on a cliff’s slope. Twig held to lost hope. Defensive surgery of bark heeds smoky premonition. Forced...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2021 | Reviews
Everlove is a title to live up to but the poems in Maggie Butt’s sixth collection are everloving in that they demonstrate her enduring and empathetic concern with the human condition. The collection is arranged in three sections, the first of which ‘Torn’ is...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Street-preacher She looks at me with that fearsome oil-sheen in her eyes, the weighty conviction of milk-heavy gaze and breasts, telling me (the spittle-flecked words like Words made flesh) of her Father, how he is unseen, felt unstirring in the...
