Janet Lees

Janet Lees

  Nine Moons  Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and high white and hard as a pill While you dream of stone trees under the ground it drops from the sky into the glass beside your bed dissolves with a bone-saw sigh The water clouds and then clears...
Ofem Ubi

Ofem Ubi

      ANY LAST WORDS. (Chapter 3 of film Back on Home Soil) A friend says, grief leaves everyone behind She ruminates on her words and goes grief leaves no one behind It shows in the way grief leaves a fraction in memory: Recollections once pristine are...
Martin Rieser

Martin Rieser

    Chipko Saving the trees We came to the tree with open arms in hope, with a feel for rain, we left the forest’s endless charms and the lost words, and the new alarms for the great tree’s growing pains. We knew the wind and we knew the earth and the...
Sarah James/Leavesley

Sarah James/Leavesley

    The Crossing There is a secret spotin every town and city –step in the right placeat the right time and paceand the world disappearsas if it had never beenanything more substantialthan a passing miracle. Listen carefully to your body’satoms, hear every...
Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa

Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa

  Portraits of Cambridge A place where a girl running isn’t just bouncing breasts. Girls here can dream dare do before they disappear into the blue plaques of cam-boys-clubs by the Eagle Pub. A place where eagles can only be he. Dining halls map histories...
Ilias Tsagas

Ilias Tsagas

  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...