by Kate Birch | Feb 11, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks
It went right down to the wire, but we can now announce that January’s ‘Pick of the Month’, and our first for 2016, is Mike Farren’s ‘Electricity and void’. Mike is a freelance writer and ex-IT consultant. He lives near Bradford and...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 29, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Exhalations after Liz Berry Hot, the rhythm of our exhalations is a pigeon flock disturbed. Without reference, my dialect is unplaced so swap me your snicket for a cut and I’ll lend you my bones like brittle spires, help you find a...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 23, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Happy Some days he’s happy. On Thursdays, he’s happy. When I leave home on work days, wheel my bike from the shed, wave to him one last goodbye, he’s looking almost jaunty, wearing his favourite striped tie. On these days, he’s up early, sings on...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 18, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Three Years The night seems friendly, almost kind. Is it because you’re here, I wonder, standing on the edge of things, your pretty toes firmly present? You do not speak. But I do. I confess my love over and over. Everything I do confesses...
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 Helen Ivory | Jan 12, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Thin Woman There has always been another woman inside me, a small one who wears this flesh of mine like a coat, hiding her pure self in the folds of my flesh, the plenitude of thighs, ripeness of belly. Now her murmurs grow louder. The house is...
