by Helen Ivory | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hiking I measure distance in Spotify playlists so I can’t be trusted with maps. How long until this becomes exhausting? You pace out the metres and minutes, you take three steps ahead as I want to ask if the ridges in your face would soften...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Cloud Forget the invisible network of servers which stores and manages or mismanages data in the unending sky far above our heads, and ignore the shroud-grey layers louring today – they seem to have sucked all the colour out of this world which...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Sef is an artist and writer searching for poetics of transformation in the everyday. https://substack.com/@seaandfog instagram: @seaandfog
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
We look to the peripheral for the shortlist for our December 2025 Pick of the Month and find work that is infused with, inspired by or a rage against myths, parables, chants and the idols of our childhood reading. Underneath all is a strong sense of a nature that is...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
seagull flying over NO VACANCY beach motel * faces on a school bus: petals of flowers unopened * golden finches rise & fall like notes of a symphony before my bicycle Wayne F. Burke’s haiku, and associated forms, have been...