by Kate Birch | Aug 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it. This was a poem that mixed physics with philosophy, loss with whimsy and caught voters unawares with its perspective and observation. It is for these reasons and many more that Paul Chuks’ beautiful,...
by Kate Birch | Jul 29, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Because it is a beautiful evocation of the land/Palestine’s grief ‘Homeland’ by Rachael Clyne powerfully pinpoints the current horrors of the world, particularly the genocide in Gaza, but also speaks to the general sorrow of displacement and loss of...
by Kate Birch | Jul 11, 2025 | Word & Image
Cosmic Spirit The beauty and fragility of Ryoko Minamitani paintings will mesmerise your mind into eternity. https://www.ryokom.com/, Instagram: @ryokom.3, Facebook. Xavier Panadès i Blas (aka The Poetry Beast)’s writings absorb the readers to the...
by Kate Birch | Jul 1, 2025 | News
Fundamentals 1. There is only one ball but countless ways to help your team. 2. Intentions matter: win or lose each game requires your fullest effort 3. The jump-shot is a fickle partner restless — it will stray from time to time; don’t fall in love with it....
by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful ‘Wallpaper’ calls out to a troubled world, its potent imagery and raw language both striking and disturbing; and for this reason Joseph Blythe’s poem is the Pick of the Month for May 2025. Joseph Blythe’s prose and poetry has...
