by Helen Ivory | Sep 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A bit OCD Floors are unvacuumed. Spices remain un-alphabetised. I bless the spaces between the furniture to keep everyone safe. Seven. I do not arrive exactly on time. Margins can keep their default size. I would like you to promise me this isn’t...
by Kate Birch | Sep 15, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
Relevant, brave and urgently important Subtle description of very complicated inter personal inter cultural situation. Sometimes a poem is of the moment. It needs to be read; its contents need to be heard. ‘At the End of the Class’ by Viv Fogel is...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Nostalgia as Yogi Bear Ruminates through you for something tasty, prizes of the Jellystone mind. Lifts a memory from the pic-a-nic basket of your past and sniffs it excitedly. He lies about the freshness of the morsel. Exaggerates its taste. Hey...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
I’m just an ordinary dryad After Anna Saunders not like fancy Eurydice with her sun god father keep things simple I say I don’t have her dilemmas full moon in new dark rising to light skin and bark together woodbine up hazel shoots in...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 13, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Poem of the Sock after Martin Stannard The poem of the mask disguises meaning. The poem of the diet lost seven words. The poem of the snowman melted. The poem of the invisible man . The poem of the ventilator needs to...
