by Elontra Hall | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The night before their wedding, Dad tells Mum two things I. He’s ten years older than he’d said, which makes him twenty-eight years older, not eighteen. It’s a bad blow. What’s done can’t be undone. Mum’s only choice is a hostel for unmarried mothers. She puts on...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Child’s Innocence in Gaza We are the ones who see big crackers burst every day— still wondering why the adults hate crackers. While everyone loves simulation games, we live inside them— the most real simulation is the war around us. There...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Tinkerbell on Queensway She barely glances at you when you chink your spare coins in her upturned cap, but still spreads a spell among the pavement footfalls, making her patch by the station a land you try not to invade. Not that you never see men...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 5, 2025 | Reviews
CLOSE -UP Quentin Cowdry Hedgehog Poetry Press 2025 ISBN 978-1-916830-47-9 This pamphlet of twenty-two poems won a Hedgehog Press first pamphlet competition in 2023. The poems are carefully structured in regular stanzas, with well-paced, rhythmical lines and...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 31, 2025 | Featured, Flash Fiction
THE DAY WE GOT THE NEWS Let’s say we have that afternoon again. Itchy for autumn. Me in pale orange lipstick and you your best tweed with leather buttons, facts mouthed at us in a room with no room to move. We hold onto thin plastic see-through cups of...
