by Fathima Zahra | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
LULLABY of CALMING – Do you take spec in your tea? Lavender seeps. I expect my limbs to leaden, lead the body down through sheet, mattress-cover, into the machinery of sleep where other lives exist. Landscapes of folding...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Still Face Experiment You must have seen that Youtube clip where a mother lets her face go dead. Her toddler carries on burbling for twenty to thirty seconds until she realises there is nothing coming back to her. First it is surprise, even laughing as this must...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Waiting For Mark After you died, someone asked: What was it like in those final sixteen days waiting for your son to die? I was not waiting. Wanting, yes. Hoping, yes. For more days. Finding joy in small things, a game of Camel Cup, your favourite...
by Kate Birch | Jan 20, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line It was one of the closest contests that we have had in some months, that in the end saw ‘A Town of Shadows’ emerge as the Pick of the Month for December 2024. Voters found it evocative, emotive, gritty...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Writing is a Little Door after Susan Sontag I imagine returning to the house. Furniture is piled up in the rain— the ideas that won’t fit. Dreams can’t squeeze through every opening, especially when they’re big, or floral or velvet with high backs...
