by Kate Birch | Jun 14, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die. Losing a parent can be an overwhelming and complex process. The initial...
by Kate Birch | Jun 5, 2026 | Reviews
The Beat The Pulse The Wave appropriately has a pulsing energy to it, like waves crashing on a shore. Jeremy Dixon writes about life, past, present with hints at a future; it feels that each poem pins down an everyday experience but offers a slantwise look at...
by Kate Birch | May 31, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Two Unseens The Two Unseens is a short experimental archival poetry film utilising footage of the first ever film recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. The original poem itself is an existential...
by Kate Birch | May 29, 2026 | Word & Image
Flora the Poet In Roundling time when days were young and she grew younger – Flora who dressed in blossoms of the seasons: poinsettia, pansy, honeydew and rose, whose dewy topiary hair was adorned with watermelon-colored dumplings and her face painted mountain ochre,...
by Kate Birch | May 13, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
An artful description of the feeling by simultaneous belonging and separation of second-generation immigrant from their ancestral homeland That sense of simultaneous belonging and separation, of connection and longing was key to those who voted for this amazing poem....
