by Helen Ivory | Jan 19, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like: AMBIT, Under the Radar, Streetcake, Poetry Wales, SAND, FU Review Berlin, Tokyo Poetry, Plumwood Mountain and elsewhere....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 18, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
A Curse Shove it, that farewell and the sky shimmering with frost and the waves wrecking on the shore I don’t care if it is basalt by the furious firth hard on hard. And as for the getting there! A mis-shapen day when the sun was unintelligible...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Rolled-Up Sleeves Tom’s advice, mind you, was to drink hot chocolate last thing at night on a garden bench beneath the moon. So, we sat there. Our eyes grew accustomed to monochrome and to the unusual grammars of darkness. A hazel-nut or two fell...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 16, 2025 | Word & Image
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning Janina Diller is a writer and researcher, about to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by Richard Kerridge and Booker...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Arrival Today, I talked with a friend about death and what it means to have arrived in my life before I have to leave it, what it means to be no longer waiting for my life to start. I did wait, many decades and now – later than most, earlier than...
