Nina Nazir

Egg Woman Series #5, collage & gel pen on paper, 2024 the egg woman spends her days writing she is alone again she must find a way to gather momentum   Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet, writer, artist and blogger based in Birmingham, UK.  She has been...

JLM Morton

      Charm for a walk     In a dull sky the guttering flame of a white heron, drawn down to the bourne. Then a field of black dock fluttering and rising like a bedsheet of crows. The webbed slush that vanishes to the touch. Did you pay for...

Chris Gylee

  1997 – Dream as Animal J. Smith Animal is going to disappear, completely Standing out on the street Down the backstairs Of three-three-three Smoking a nervous cigarette Squinting into the evening August sun Beard scratchy and hot with tobacco Chest...

Tonnie Richmond

      Secrets     We could tell there was something we weren’t allowed to know. Something kept hidden from us children, something not quite right with Mr Jones. We wondered why his wife had rabbit-in-the-headlight eyes. When blue lights came...

Morag Smith

The Rescuers       When the waters broke we were out there, borderless, with just a view of bloodshot sky from the labour suite, his weight a nautilus shell, face pinched in perpetual sleep, one silk eyelid pulled awry as dawn held him at the edge of...