by Kate Birch | May 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
St Ann’s Square Manchester, 23rd May 2017 Because I cannot show you what is at the centre of all this I will lay language up to its edge, walk its edges the way I moved through the back of the crowd too afraid to go in. I had to shade my eyes from...
by Kate Birch | May 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Queer positivity It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it. Sometimes a poem just captures a moment. Elena Chamberlain’s was originally published just over a week before the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological...
by Kate Birch | May 12, 2025 | Featured, Filmpoems
Tell People Why They Should Care Often, I feel a deep, deep sadness inside; frustration, anger converted into depression for the way the World is, (and always will be?) Trust, broken. Rape, war, poverty, Climate Change, racism, sexism, abuse, murder…...
by Kate Birch | Apr 26, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’ Voters loved the language of the poem, its spirituality and the risks it took. They were impressed by the imagery, its rhythm, its line changes. But mainly they loved how it connected them to their mothers, to their parents, to...
by Kate Birch | Apr 6, 2025 | News
We are pleased to announce the following poems as our nominations for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written). Good Luck to all; our fingers are firmly crossed. Skins My mother had a handbag made from the skin of a female cobra her brother killed...
