by Kate Birch | May 15, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’ This poem appealed on so many layers: A remembered experience of children’s parties, with either fondness or dismay. Childhood memories and an unsettling sense of being in limbo. A limbo that we all are unnerved by, a...
by Kate Birch | May 14, 2024 | Filmpoems, Uncategorized
Free A yellow patch against the cement of the yard his beautiful song the surprise visit of an escaped bird. Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like: Apogee, AMBIT, Under the...
by Kate Birch | Apr 22, 2024 | Filmpoems
My head is the earth My head is the earth, my skin the air dusk is my hair. I am the earth – I open myself and make love with the sky. On my horizon we touch and eternity cascades on me with the night/light. Axis Mundi is based on Csilla...
by Kate Birch | Apr 20, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset. Voters loved the imagery, the descriptive power of this poem. They found it evocative, eerie, heart-wrenching. And for...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2024 | Word & Image
Little Kit Precious leveret gently slumber in your nest of brushed red velvet Charlotte Holm is a textile artist living in East Yorkshire. She recently started writing poetry and is excited about combining this with her love of textiles to create...
