by Kate Birch | Mar 9, 2023 | News
J V Birch Originally published 4th May 2022 Jenny Pagdin Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building and the concrete bus station and its standing water, we were Hampshire, Beirut and Freetown with neat shelves of Vimto, ivory, Milupa, of Milton,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dangerous Bird She wanted grace. she wanted to feel her limbs lightweight to know flight without wings where light was dim & bass louder than bodies hitting ground. she once saw her body hitting ground purposefully, carefully planned &...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
content warning: gynaecological examination Naming of Parts (after Henry Reed) Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday we had no idea they would need to be named. Two students avoid my...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Door I opened the door A girl stood there her blonde hair drifting in the wind She said My mother told me not to go to the mountains she said there is nothing to eat in the mountains and she said I will get lost in the mountains and I will slip...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Diaspora I lost both my lovely uncles one after the other to another country. Jubilantly they had passed their examinations and once equipped with white coats and certificates they poised to join the gloried institutions only to find corridors...
