by Helen Ivory | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Torn On one side– my heritage on the other side– their heritage on both sides– carnage everywhere– endless grief. To lift the weight sitting in my chest. I need to be away from people. In an edgeland of drab fields and ditches, I seek solace, not...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Nick Browne is an established novelist and aspiring poet. Nick’s poetry has been accepted for publication by Acumen, Ink Sweat & Tears, Blue Nib, Snakeskin, Archaeology Today, Anthropecene, Wivanhoe, Lunar Magazine and Dreich and been anthologised in Bollocks to...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Ledger In the left hand column she writes He’s married in the right hand column she writes My skin is beached against the stone wall of you in the left hand column she writes He sets his alarm for 1715 In the right hand column she writes When...
by Kate Birch | Jan 9, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss Maureen Jivani’s poem had a universal resonance. Voters said it brought to mind their first hospital visit, playing with a newborn baby, a mother with a dying daughter. They found the poem,...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Lovers and Trees In the evening trees become sad I climbed on them like a metaphor, later it transpired they were our anthropological versions organic companions shadowing imagine how many lovers have sat under them moaning the mysteries how many...
