by Kate Birch | Oct 3, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Truth The defendant’s elderly mother tells you she can’t hear very well. You listen to the graphic descriptions of the child images her son viewed on his computer like a punch in the stomach. You have children, you are a mother. His mother’s face...
by Kate Birch | Sep 23, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
You might think it strange that ‘A Poem about Frost’ should be the Pick of the Month for the height of summer but Aishwarya Raghu’s ‘profound’ ‘melancholy’ and ‘beautiful’ poem took voters beyond nature and winter...
by Kate Birch | Sep 20, 2019 | Word & Image
freshwater bio sonar boto freshwater bio sonar boto over-hunted through the flooded forests agile Amazon pinkness with tactile whiskers tiny-spiny dolphin-teeth murky-snouting red bellied piranhas, croakers and catfish #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate...
by Kate Birch | Sep 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
The shortlist for August’s Pick of the Month is a feast for the senses. Breathe in Gregory Kearns’ ‘Perfume’, feel the touch of cold in Aishwarya Raghu’s ‘A Poem about Frost’ and learn ‘When to stop eating chalk’...
by Kate Birch | Aug 20, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
Voters loved the spareness – ‘concise and succinct’ – and ‘the absolute enormity of restlessness conveyed’ through the poem’s structure as well as its language. So for these reasons, and more, the excellent ‘He...
