by Kate Birch | Nov 9, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
From Fothermather An Apple Seed apple cup & shell I say these things to you I read them from the book book book this is a book you roll yourself to where the sound must be ...
by Kate Birch | Oct 22, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It was an extremely close run thing but ‘NIMBY and the Supermoon 2018′ by Helen Kay edged over the finish line to be our Pick of the Month for September 2019. This topical and emotive poem naturally gelled with voters’ concerns over the environment,...
by Kate Birch | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
It feels like all of life is in the September 2019 shortlist for Pick of the Month: Birth, death, love, hate, the past and the future (or lack of it.) Can you feel time in Cliff Forshaw’s ‘Ice’ slipping away or see the futility in ‘Brick By...
by Kate Birch | Oct 7, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
 : Something’s wrong This is how it will start: from the other side of a room you’ll hear your mum talk, loud but so fast you won’t be able to follow and she will see you’re looking so she’ll come over and pull you aside. Listen to me, she will...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
A True Version honest to god i can’t bear to look at myself in the mirror i stalk her she’s my new poem in her fitted coat and high heels on the number 10 bus put bars on the lines last night i told him Megan’s seeing a married guy in the...