yu chengyou

  *Poem extract by Helen Pletts whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are both published by YWO/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and available on Amazon. ‘Bottle bank’ was longlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize 2006, under...

On Love and Winter

Love symbols spoken in a Chinese winter I am grown tall in the telling of the yellowthat the dance leaves a signal for, finishing the ridge in a luminous squall,wanting your white elk-breath and the hoof-pound at my door.  I am the first blade turned black in...

Amy Rafferty

PétursdóttirPétursdóttir took a boat all the way to Svalbard. With a little seed cupped in her little hand. The seed was her father and the boat was her love and Svalbard was the only safe place she could think to take him. Pétursdóttir knocked on the door of the...

Ken Head reviews Martyn Crucefix's 'Hurt'

Hurt  by Martyn Crucefix Enitharmon Press ISBN:  978-1-904634-97-3 £9.99 114ppFrom first to last, Martyn Crucefix’s impressive fifth collection offers writing of quality and worth.  Arranged in three sections, its fifty-one thematically and...

Susannah Pickering

CoatShades of earth & skywith me between themwalkingon a blue morningyour red ticket stubin the cold lined pocketbluntedslipping through fingersleaving me wanting *Susannah Pickering is a poet, playwright and knitter with poems previously published in the likes of...