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On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, we bring you Alle Bloom and Mariam Saidan

by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 31, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Knots When I remember the white paint of the door frame it’s not my tiny 8-year-old hands that grip it, steadying the spinning top of my chest. It’s not with those hands I feel the squeak of paint under fingertips, not with that thumb...

On the Tenth Day of Christmas we bring you Jean O’Brien, Paul Stephenson, Ruth Aylett, Sarah Mnatzaganian

by Helen Ivory | Dec 30, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Left Over Christmas Trees Paper never refuses ink, no matter how hard the words it just absorbs. In the same way the eye never refuses the blue of sky, the fish water, the bird never spurns air. In the wind leaves of eucalyptus show their silver...
Debbie Strange

Debbie Strange

by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 29, 2023 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image

    Lightfall     lightfall so, too snow       Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and...

On the Ninth Day of Christmas we bring you Scott Elder, Lynn Valentine, Sue Finch

by Helen Ivory | Dec 29, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      The Ninth Day It could have been any day—you in the doorway   one hand in your pocket  one still on  the wheel      the road:  a fluster of birds  your daughter: at one end  lick- ing her wounds    you at the other  Lord of the Doorway—but  it...

On the Eighth Day of Christmas we bring you D.A. Prince, Frances Boyle, Maggie Mackay

by Helen Ivory | Dec 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Redbreast hawk-bait fool of a bird, top-branch, easy pick-off; careless busker; lonely crowd-pleaser, air-ruffled; one long itch and riff of song; leafless pitcher, head-turner, tuned in to tree-top maps of competitors; Mr Tomato-Soup-On-A-Stick,...
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