by Kate Birch | Mar 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
It comes around so quickly, this voting business. But it really is a very nice way to recognise some of our writers and poets and we appreciate you coming back to the voting booth again and again. We’ve a largely softer tone this time, appropriate for the...
by Kate Birch | Feb 17, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
When we published our latest shortlist, we noted that it looked to the displaced and the vulnerable so it is perhaps no surprise that Rachael Smart’s ‘Waiting’, a poem that speaks to the vulnerability that is personal to so many of us, is our Pick...
by Kate Birch | Feb 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
2017 brings with it insecurity and uncertainty and our January Pick of the Month shortlist, in part, reflects this as we look to the displaced and the vulnerable. The shortlisted works can be found below (or see the ‘Vote for your Pick of the Month for January 2017’...
by Kate Birch | Feb 1, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
Sweatshop The delivery boy, awash with cold air, is rolling The frozen bales. The baster’s thread emerges from the chalk track and dips back in like the dolphin he saw in mid-Atlantic on the passage over. He tacks the suit Keeping things together until the...
by Kate Birch | Jan 17, 2017 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News, prizes and awards
We take one last lingering look back to 2016 with our final ‘picks’ for the year. Both Christmas poems, they affected us in very different ways. You chose Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s painfully resonant ‘The Homewrecker and His Pun’ as our...
