by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
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 book, The Language...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 24, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Noel After Sasha Dugdale Christmas is coming. December is amber with last month’s leaves and fairy lights flutter in the high street. The fir tree beside the Buttercross is naked, fenced-off by railings anyone could topple – and, look, here they...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 23, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Advent Why wait? the supermarket asks (you know which one) when puddings ooze expense and calendars for Advent spill indulgence. Down the street festive lights jitter and twitch. Each day is inching shorter. Wood pigeons strip the hedgerow holly...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas at the Poundland Plaza Under a concrete sky heavy with snow a zig-zag disabled access path leads from the car park to the mall across the Poundland Plaza. Hot air escaping through the sliding doors spirals a drift of balance statements...
by Kate Birch | Dec 21, 2022 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
my father wears a yellow mask my father wears a yellow mask leans into the wooden staff —a farmer’s gift from Dartmoor— years before. His legs unsteady, my legs unsteady, perhaps autumn already knows our quest for apples, led us here to this shelf lined with...
