Carrie Etter's 'Birthmother's Handbook'

The Birthmother’s Handbook  Choose another name for yourself, another city.Prepare for the nuisance of the body,a variegated allotment of pain and difficultythat presages old age. Rub your hands over your distending belly,but not like a brass lamp, not like...

Jason Ryberg's 'Stars and Crickets'

Stars and CricketsWhy don't you come on outto my place, baby?Let me give you the guided tour.Just take Old 40five miles or so,out past the signal-lightand Dewey's Auto Salvage,'round Ms. Johnsons' Hairpinand over the Princeton Wall,through the Snakeand...

Some ekphrasis from Neil Campbell

Hotel by a Railroad The hotel by the railroad was our home, and it fit my life as though the tracks going by were the memories of moving youth and the hotel itself the stable stopping off point of maturity. He owned it like he owned other things in town and he owned...

Julia Webb reviews 'Vintage Sea' by Marion McCready

Vintage Sea by Marion McCready, Calderwood Press, 2011, £5McCready has a strong and confident voice, especially so for a first collection. The poet hails from the island of Lewis and was brought up in Dunoon, Argyll, consequently her poems are imbued with landscape...

David Mac's 'Sleeper'

The Sleeper he stalked thru the world feeling the flowers as he ran every time he lost it it was usually found under his bed in the evening as the sun went down he looked up the birds were melting in the trees   David Mac is a poet...