by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Word & Image
Eupatorium maculatum Acer pseudoplatanus Quercus robur About the plant poems: They were sketched from life in a notebook. Later I created riso prints with two or three colours based on the sketches. I tried to make the words...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Filmpoems
Valentia Light There are storms on the way. Look, look upwind. How we crave light. The southwesterly seethes. It is coming in, the fierce ocean. There is no defence against the rock’s teeth, only light. And the waves, a cross-hatched expanse whose white...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 8, 2026 | Reviews
In Praise of transpiration by Meredith MacLeod Davidson From the opening poem of Meredith MacLeod Davidson’s transpiration, we find ourselves in a landscape haunted by cycles of loss. ‘Anchorless / a boat bangs against sea-weathered pylons,’ and...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
New Year I start the day early with a cup of tea. A new diary asks I make an affirmation, while cleaning my teeth. I have nothing to offer – Where did this despair come from? Yesterday I took my son to Casualty, for an X-ray on his fractured...
