by Kate Birch | Sep 1, 2022 | News
A Smear of Lineage / I Tried ‘This piece was written for the co-curation initiative with Manchester Poetry Library, seeking to introduce Imazighen and French poetry to the library’s shelves. A Smear of Lineage / I Tried explains the difficulty of...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Family. Food. Heritage. Continuity. Love A comment that says it all and, after a closely fought contest, was almost certainly the reason that Lalah-Simone Springer pipped her rivals at the post with her poem ‘Dasheen’ becoming the Pick of the Month for July 2022....
by Kate Birch | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro fiction both spare, both powerful. But while Sanah Ahsan’s ‘fresher’ is...
by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Creative thinking outside the box …describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective, ‘fiery imagery and subversion of religious tropes’, that it...
by Kate Birch | Jun 5, 2022 | Filmpoems
Royal Charters in 1600 and 1660 established the East India Company and the Royal African Company and between them these two bodies probably wrought more misery and devastation in Asia and Africa than any other institutions. The East Indian Company went...
