by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
That Three-Tusked Beast I wasn’t to know that it was a three-tusked beast; that there was not one, not two, but three that grew the seed of me. Back then, who’d ever heard of that unlikely jungle lore? In school there was room for two, no more: a...
by Kate Birch | Apr 11, 2026 | News
The Forward Prizes have given us the green light that our submissions have been successful and we are pleased to announce that poems by John Bartlett, Rachael Clyne and Mariam Saidan are our three nominations for the Prizes Best Single Poem award for 2026. Please join...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Pollarding An ancient art of tree management, in which the top branches of trees are removed to promote dense new growth, provide light to the understory & fodder for animals. On her first day home, she took to plucking the sky with tweezers—...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Word & Image
C O N T E N T W A R N I N G A N S W E R T H E F O L L O W I N G A S T R U T H F U L L Y A S P O S S I B L E : W H A T I S A R I S K A S S E S S M E N T ? an organized procedure / distinguishing jeopardy / appraising connected dangers within a body /...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Man in a Room after Interior at Paddington – Lucian Freud. Which is the subject? Limp-leaved yucca reluctantly dying, the foreground figure in its stony pot? Or the man with a stare glassy-eyed behind spectacles, fixed into absence or...
