by Kate Birch | Dec 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Time once more to choose your Pick of the Month, this time for November 2016. So tear yourself away from Christmas/holiday shopping and take a few moments to pick your favourite from the shortlist of six below (or see the ‘Vote for your Pick of the Month for...
by Kate Birch | Dec 2, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* old farmhouse wet snow falls on the backs of pigs * sun-bleached cattle bones a dung beetle burrows in the midden * shady forests swallowed whole by fire one charred acorn * waning rose an ant bears my burden * arriving from the first world I am an alien * the sun...
by Kate Birch | Nov 17, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
It was a tightly fought contest and from a dark and sombre shortlist, Sally Beets’ wonderfully caustic ‘Tree Surgery’ emerged as the overall winner and Pick of the Month for October. Maybe we all just needed to vent! Sally is a poet and Young...
by Kate Birch | Nov 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our Pick of the Month shortlist for October is a sombre one. People and relationships are mourned, or not, and we’ve been drawn to the dark and macabre, perhaps befitting in a month that ends with the Day of the Dead. You will find our shortlisted writers...
by Kate Birch | Oct 14, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
A surge in voting in the final hours saw Angharad Walker just pip her nearest rival at the post with her moving ‘Leda Meets Helen’, a superb example of how much can be said in only a few words. Angharad graduated from the University of Warwick with...
