New haiga by Rachel Green

* Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. She has also started 'tweeting' an early morning haiku from her Twitter account – you can find her here...

Liz Bassett remembers the Strada Jezer

Stradă Jezer  In a bed that you fold downand once shared with your sister, we breathe mothballs caught on the thin soundsof swimming pool cries and laughteradrift from the benches between blocs 7 and 9. In scară A, apartament 5,your fingers cast...

Harry Owen considers the moments of our living

TendingMess of thin cobwebs in the top corner of the bathroom window, one yellow spider a long-legged sac patrolling the bounds;rain that tends down with this soft hiss, a veil,its silken signature of earth-parchmenta blessing, temptation, wilderness;or snores that...

Andy Spragg has an encounter with the editor

The Editor Maxwell used to eat by swallowing greatbunching fistfuls of food,gargling thick spills of cooling gravy. Throat cluttered with cigar smoke –he would cough,putting an abrupt end toconversation.Punctuating peppered hacks with one dabof the finger –the...