by Kate Birch | Feb 3, 2016 | Blogs & News
It’s that time again: Voting is now open for the Pick of the Month – your favourite poem – for January 2016 Our shortlist of six is below (or see the Vote for your January 2016 Pick of the Month in the Categories list to your right on the screen). These have...
by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2016 | 2015 poetry picks
We can now announce that December’s ‘Pick of the Month’, and our final one for 2015, is James Parris’ ‘The Alchemist’ which featured on the first day of our ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ series. James writes from East...
by Kate Birch | Jan 4, 2016 | Blogs & News
ONE LAST HOLIDAY TREAT. Voting is now open for the Pick of the Month – your favourite poem – for December 2015 Our shortlist of six is below (or see the Vote for your December 2015 Pick of the Month in the Categories list to your right on the...
by Kate Birch | Jan 4, 2016 | 2015 poetry picks
The Door There is no door. How then to make an entrance? Perhaps a dramatic appearance; enter angel stage left, maybe flying in through the open window, or else strolling, nonchalant from the garden, surprising her as she sits at peace on the portico. But there...
by Kate Birch | Jan 4, 2016 | 2015 poetry picks
The Alchemist The house was strange without one. Corners where it could be swelled daily in their emptiness and threatened to topple the festivity. Contrary under her gaze, he determined that a squat bought thing just wouldn’t do, and, shedding skeptics, picked...
