by Kate Birch | Sep 7, 2026 | Featured, News, Poetry
Heathrow flight lines I kill lines of ant. Heat arrives in the wrong season. It feels important to know the names of birds under the thrum of a flight corridor. Birds collide with machines, causing damage, risking delays. Who counts bird deaths? A...
by Kate Birch | Aug 31, 2026 | Reviews
With a collection titled Memento Mori, you’d expect poems that dwell solemnly on death. Gareth Writer-Davies certainly keeps mortality in view, but this collection is distinguished by its insistence that death is encountered, not as an abstraction, but through...
by Kate Birch | Aug 24, 2026 | Filmpoems
The cat is a pony. The cat is a pony, Her nape is a mane. The cat she is tiny but belies her size. She gallops, turning floors and stairs to thunderous drums. This cat is a pony. She shreds the top of carpet treads to make grass. A roped up patch of scrub on a...
by Kate Birch | Aug 21, 2026 | Reviews
The poems in Jennie E. Owen’s The Horses Still Run (Dragon Fly Eleven, 2024) were imbued with an ambient fear – a low, persistent hum beneath the surface, an unease with a world out of step, both ecologically and socially. Fear remains central in...
by Kate Birch | Aug 19, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
I love it. It so accurately demonstrates the painfulness of those early days when your language competency is so limited that your personality feels suppressed! A spare, straightforward poem utilising what editing intern Sabine Wilson-Patrick called a ‘blunting...
