by Kate Birch | Aug 31, 2026 | Reviews
With a collection titled Memento Mori, you’d expect poems that dwell solemnly on death. Gareth Writer-Davies certainly keeps mortality in view, but this collection is distinguished by its insistence that death is encountered, not as an abstraction, but through...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
End of a World In the back of the taxi on my way to the hospital, thighs clenched together, the driver asked me, You visiting someone there? Yes, I said. I am visiting a friend. When I get there, I will tell my friend that I was watching The...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Object M16- The Pillars of Creation He who created all things, and bears up the pillars of creation, hath now become so weak, that He must be carried by a woman! – Charles Spurgeon * Here — in the absolute zero of space — fireworks! Look how...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
After, We unlearn how it felt to touch And resume our separate days in shirts and trousers, Like hazmats against the sun and its longing, The moon with its underbelly pulls. On the pillow I turn away from you, Burn sage to ward off the memory. ...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 28, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lightly a god, if he wishes, can save a man, even from far off Now a blanket is spread, offerings of chutney and shin bones, a taper held to the fire that heats the tar beneath our boats. A phial of bathwater discolours on a shelf, unemptied...
