by Sofía Masondo | Aug 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Bust of a Young Man (from the Burrell Collection) Bronze. Roman copy, made in the Eastern Mediterranean. 100 BC – AD 100 I’m nineteen, I’m ancient. I am so hungover one of my eyes has fallen out… He’d come in every Saturday morning, looking rough as...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Everybody Knows Ceilings don’t hold water well. Burst a pipe at the top of an apartment block to test this theory, if you will. Lock the doors to each flat. Let the water run down between kitchen floors, popping out the eyeballs of ceiling lights...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Abertawe After Richard Siken For CHD Tell me about the time I mansplained that Swansea is the English for Abertawe and means town at the mouth of the River Tawe. And about when, from the hill above Rhossili beach Lundy Island’s spectral mass...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Mark Wyatt’s pattern poems have appeared in Ambit, The Echo Room, ELTED, Nine Muses Poetry, P.E.N. New Poetry II (Arts Council/Quartet), Poetry Nottingham, Slow Dancer. He is currently developing a sequence of pattern poems that take inspiration from...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 21, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Pleasure of Fruit I tempt you with morsels of soft-skinned peach, a pear sliced in quarters, pipless and skinless. Your teeth may be failing but your tastebuds savour the sweetness; juice drips down your chin. Sticky fingers once picked...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Lesley Burt has had individual poems published in various journals, including Tears in the Fence, Prole, Dreich, Ink Sweat & Tears and London Grip. My first pamphlet, Mr & Mrs Andrews Reframed, was published by Templar in 2023, and my latest...
