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 | 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...
by Kate Birch | Jan 4, 2016 | 2015 poetry picks
Watching Tai Chi in the Park in December She casts her spells under weeping trees. Look down. You landed here by chance, lured by the festive glow of a ruined bandstand, caught up in a honeytrap of peeling paint and decay. You both come here to comb the air for...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 20, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Eleven Years Tasted Like a Thousand Year Old Chinese Egg eleven years tasted like a thousand-year old Chinese egg doorway cracked windows rusted at the seams– the nights grew thin and red summer gripped me in its fist then winter tricked your shadows into...
by Kate Birch | Dec 15, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks
We are pleased to be able to announce that November’s Pick of the Month is groundwater by Marcelle Olivier. Marcelle is a poet and archaeologist. Her translations of contemporary South African poetry appear in the recent edited collection In a burning sea...
