Helen Mort is carrying on

by | Jul 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

The LovesickWritten in response to the Carry On film 'Follow That Camel!'We're just like Bo and Nocker in a 1960s film; two mugs drawn in by something like a belly-dancer's tasselled hips, kidnapped the day we pause to shake out shoes and underwear...

Geoff Stevens says TFI Friday

by | Jul 29, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Yes, bad timing, this should really be used tomorrow…FFRIDAY Fuck she saidno hot waterFuck she saidone earring rollingbeneath the bedFuck she saidit’s half past eightI’ll be lateFuck she saidthe car’s stalled againFuck she saidthe petrol’s lowFuck she...

Melissa Lee-Houghton says she's yours

by | Jul 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

She’s YoursOne version is that you went to prison, and nobody knowing why only makes it all the more glamorousto a seven year old with a giddy imagination.Out picking daisies and dandelion clocks,scabs all over her knees, the girl imagines yourattling your tin cup...

Andrea Porter on trying not to be seen

by | Jul 26, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Dementia Perpetua(i.m  M.A.P)If you keep looking down they can’t see you. I don’t want to catch their eye again. It’s like playing Peep-O with a baby, if they can’t see your face it’s as if you are gone. They can read your mind. I’ve seen them moving. The...

John Grey is watching the salmon run

by | Jul 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

IF SALMON RUN So many fish are clearing the dams this year.Thanks to the heavy rainfall of coursebut maybe the urge for the spawning placesis riper than weariness and gravity. Look out the window, Christine…those silver bodies, one after the...