by Kate Birch | Feb 9, 2020 | Featured, News
The ordinary becomes extraordinary in the shortlisted works for our first Pick of the Month for 2020 and the decade. Seemingly familiar warning signs in Rob Stuart’s Word & Image are, in fact, ‘Poetry Hazards’. Melanie Branton’s...
by Kate Birch | Jan 19, 2020 | Featured, News
For December’s Pick of the Month, the future and the state of our planet knocked everything else into touch – even the fine slant of our 12 Days of Christmas shortlisted poems – and Mick Corrigan’s ‘No more ordinary mornings’ emerged as the...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured, News
Our shortlist for December 2019’s #PickoftheMonth, the last of the decade, reflects the unease that has pervaded the year. Some poems have come from our #12DaysOf… Christmas feature but these are not scenes of comfort and joy. Santa’s...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
At Christmas All Easyjet flights are cancelled – only difficult journeys now. Three in party hats come dragging their presents over a snowy car park. A few attendants shepherd them into a building: the call to desert places. Looking up for a...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sparklen Bottle Grandma’s sparklen in the winterdark house where I grew up loved me the best: I pushed my nose up close to see fireflies leap and sputter, glow-worms climb and fall in tiny squeezes, flayed hearts of angels – I know she whispered...
