by Kate Birch | Jun 5, 2026 | Reviews
The Beat The Pulse The Wave appropriately has a pulsing energy to it, like waves crashing on a shore. Jeremy Dixon writes about life, past, present with hints at a future; it feels that each poem pins down an everyday experience but offers a slantwise look at...
by Kate Birch | May 31, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Two Unseens The Two Unseens is a short experimental archival poetry film utilising footage of the first ever film recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. The original poem itself is an existential...
by Kate Birch | May 29, 2026 | Word & Image
Flora the Poet In Roundling time when days were young and she grew younger – Flora who dressed in blossoms of the seasons: poinsettia, pansy, honeydew and rose, whose dewy topiary hair was adorned with watermelon-colored dumplings and her face painted mountain ochre,...
by Kate Birch | May 13, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
An artful description of the feeling by simultaneous belonging and separation of second-generation immigrant from their ancestral homeland That sense of simultaneous belonging and separation, of connection and longing was key to those who voted for this amazing poem....
by Kate Birch | Apr 12, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
It captures the silence and stillness of childhood snow and all it can mask and hide beautifully It was a poem of two halves. Some voters were drawn to the joy of playing in the snow. It had a ‘vivid wintry feels’, it reminded them of their childhood, with...
