by Helen Ivory | Oct 26, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
A conversation with my daughter about my brother’s suicide She is awake. The moon is bright and the clouds have parted. The trees are painted trees, living a still life. She tells me my brother is in the moon. I’ve bathed her, given her milk and...
by Kate Birch | Oct 22, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It was an extremely close run thing but ‘NIMBY and the Supermoon 2018′ by Helen Kay edged over the finish line to be our Pick of the Month for September 2019. This topical and emotive poem naturally gelled with voters’ concerns over the environment,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Night Train It seems so long ago, now, that I took the night train across the border aware only of the fury to flee anywhere, the numb indifference towards the destination. Does it matter to you where I started from? Since then, every journey has...
by Kate Birch | Oct 7, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
 : Something’s wrong This is how it will start: from the other side of a room you’ll hear your mum talk, loud but so fast you won’t be able to follow and she will see you’re looking so she’ll come over and pull you aside. Listen to me, she will...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
A True Version honest to god i can’t bear to look at myself in the mirror i stalk her she’s my new poem in her fitted coat and high heels on the number 10 bus put bars on the lines last night i told him Megan’s seeing a married guy in the...
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...
