by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Numinous You see, there is this fold, and this ridge, and this sweet hood, and this little shiny popping button, and this smooth silver-glistening, and this depth, and deep, deep within, there is something that touches you back. Math...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
egg her first was almost translucent light brown with dark freckles laid in the pot of a dying nasturtium a virgin birth in a pile of hay dropped and abandoned like it was nothing special Geraldine Stoneham lives in South Australia...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
How Would You Draw a Bear? after Jen Campbell Grass seeds planted in doormat fur, fish scales stiff between tree-root teeth and the cave-deep noise of animal-sleep. Still, how would you know it for a bear? How would I? You would call it bear, sure...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
‘I found it particularly hard as a dad.’ Keir Starmer, Prime Minister’s statement in the House on historic forced adoption I’ve been staring at the blank page of this notebook for an hour. I close my eyes and breathe in for four, hold for four...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Duomo We slept as best we could on the night train. Leaving the station we walked empty streets aimlessly until turning a corner there it was, silent and vast as the moon. Ken Cockburn is a poet and translator from Scotland and works in...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 28, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Balancing On the pitch of the roof a jackdaw holds a twig longer than its wingspan— do corvids feel pride? Balancing the weight, the bird shuttles from rooftop to rooftop to join its partner. They fly together beyond my view where their...
