by Kate Birch | Feb 21, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful. Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable This shortlist was all about lives – lives born, lives saved, lives lived, lives lost – and it is perhaps fitting that the poem that came first with voters was that which looked...
by Kate Birch | Feb 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Denizens Mice live in the London Tube. A train leaves and small pieces of sooty black detach themselves from the sooty black walls and forage for crumbs in the rubbish under the rails that are death to man. You can’t see their feet move. They...
by Kate Birch | Jan 20, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line It was one of the closest contests that we have had in some months, that in the end saw ‘A Town of Shadows’ emerge as the Pick of the Month for December 2024. Voters found it evocative, emotive, gritty...
by Kate Birch | Dec 26, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
26th December in the Quiet That comes Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is forthcoming from...
by Kate Birch | Dec 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Once again at the end of another year, we cannot acknowledge Christmas without looking to that part of the world where it all began. All we can do is hope that the genocide in and decimations of Gaza will stop, the illegal incursions into the West Bank end, the...
