by Helen Ivory | Oct 22, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Poison Takes the Place of Food There’s no one in the flat when I come home from school, my dinner in the fridge – poison on a flowered plate, covered with tin foil, surrounded by full shelves of poison. I warm mine up, dust with salt but it...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A mouthful of stones The sister I don’t have has pockets bulging with silver-foiled chocolate and popping candy, rustling- wrapped strawberry surprises and infinite packets of unopened love hearts. She leaves me the pocket full of stones, ones my...
by Kate Birch | Oct 20, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
Love the squirmy awkwardness and the humour. This poem struck a chord with many of you. The unsettling, torturous process of the hairdressers – something that to many is a hugely mundane experience and to some a luxurious one – comes through so strongly and is why...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Oct 20, 2026 | Word & Image
Mark Wyatt’s pattern poems have appeared in various journals including Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Full House Literary, Ink Sweat and Tears, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Osmosis, The Plentitudes, Radon Journal, Streetcake...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Cine Reels On screen, Dad was the radical – the introverted pen-and-notepad kind, donkey jacket, beard, betrayed. Another time he played a photographer eyeballing Liverpool – statutes, pigeons, couples out to lunch. Thieves snapped in the act. Our...
