by Kate Birch | Oct 20, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
A fine and eclectic group of poems from, for the first time in our Pick of the Month competition, an all woman shortlist. What poem draws you in? Will you choose: Sharon Black, ‘Free Range’: a poem on the edge of human/creature experience Anna Bowles,...
by Kate Birch | Oct 7, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Word & Image
torn lantern Salil Chaturvedi is a writer, poet and disability campaigner. His published collections include In the Sanctuary of a Poem, Love and Longing in the Anthropocene, A Little Knowing and Ya Ra La Va Sha Sa Ha (in Hindi). His short story...
by Kate Birch | Oct 4, 2026 | Word & Image
Deliverance collage, gel pen & found text on paper, 2026 It’s valuable vulnerable work telling the truth in all its beautiful horror Nina Nazir is a British Pakistani poet, writer and fine artist based in Birmingham, UK. She has been published widely...
by Kate Birch | Oct 1, 2026 | Filmpoems
Magnificence For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer What jewelled gifts are these, spliced and stacked on platters of smeared glass? A universe of micro. You breathed life to mitre continents, raised spikebergs of vitamin C. Sulphur produced Marvel-ready planets...
by Kate Birch | Oct 1, 2026 | Word & Image
Wondering: Poem under Construction ‘Poem under Construction’ was originally featured as part of the ‘Is it Finished?’ HADAU Exhibition in 2025, where viewers were invited to place texts inside the crate; these texts were later incorporated into a...
