Holly Magill

    Caffeine He doesn’t like these franchised places with their name-tagged “baristas”, groomed to be excitable and toothy. (As students should never be.) He doesn’t want cinnamon sprinkles, organic sustainable stirrers and blends christened according to...

Sophie Yeomans

  Stubb Road Stubb Road is a snake of clay Enticing me To play in the rustling brown brook; Sticklebacks dawdle, wait to be caught. I lift the jar to watch them. They twist to avoid my giant gaze. When I have eaten them up With staring, I’ll tip them free. Stubb...

Anthony Langford

  Quiet herself She is not herself They say She is saying things She would not normally say They excuse her for it For the time being at least Yet If they thought about it a little more They would know That she can only ever be herself That these thoughts exist...

Ruth Stacey

      Fleeces The conversation drips like laudanum from a thick glass bottle; they are sheep butting heads in a field of grass comparison: who has the best grass? Are our lambs at the right school to get the high results to land the correct job to buy...

Geraldine Green

    Green geese   Last night   I couldn’t sleep so I painted geese not just any geese but green ones    flying over me heading   for the moon hanging low   over Skiddaw full   and   round   and   silver a speckled-back mirror.   I could see  ...

Sarah Kelly

  Sarah Kelly (1985) is currently living in Argentina. Her poetry can be found in the chapbooks locklines and Ways of Describing Cuts (Knivesforksandspoons Press), Better than Language Anthology (Ganzfeld Press), The Salzberg Review, QUID, two poetic...