by Kate Birch | Feb 14, 2022 | Picks of the Month
… it’s so real. The movement of the poem without breath evokes exactly the situation it describes The wonderfully titled ‘A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We Move the Time of Evensong’ by Manon Ceridwen James is the...
by Kate Birch | Jan 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
So evocative and vivid Lovers of all things seaside and Blackpool pushed Abigail Flint’s ‘Self portait as Blackpool’ to the fore and she emerged as the winning Pick of the Month poet with her ‘startlingly original’ poem in what was a very close competition....
by Kate Birch | Jan 3, 2022 | News
creature comfort goat-eyed and fragile I lay my head in your lap. seven days I have struggled braying spitting against the grain my...
by Kate Birch | Dec 14, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Beautiful, evocative and hits all my senses The words ‘evocative’ and ‘beautiful’ were used over and over again to describe Subitha Baghirathan’s ‘Sari shop, Easton’ and it is for this reason and the poem’s sense of place that this vibrant work is the...
by Kate Birch | Nov 1, 2021 | Picks of the Month
Speaks directly and painfully, sharp images ‘Insomnia’ by Julie Stevens spoke to many voters, whether it was an anguish experienced only occasionally or bound up and endemic to a chronic condition; and, for this reason, this ‘compelling’, ‘visceral’ poem is the...
