by Kate Birch | Oct 20, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED. THE SEPTEMBER PICK OF THE MONTH WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE WEEK BEGINNING 26 OCTOBER. A fine and eclectic group of poems from, for the first time in our Pick of the Month competition, an all woman shortlist. What poem draws you in? Will you...
by Kate Birch | Sep 15, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
Relevant, brave and urgently important Subtle description of very complicated inter personal inter cultural situation. Sometimes a poem is of the moment. It needs to be read; its contents need to be heard. ‘At the End of the Class’ by Viv Fogel is...
by Kate Birch | Sep 7, 2026 | Featured, News, Poetry
Heathrow flight lines I kill lines of ant. Heat arrives in the wrong season. It feels important to know the names of birds under the thrum of a flight corridor. Birds collide with machines, causing damage, risking delays. Who counts bird deaths? A...
by Kate Birch | Aug 19, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
I love it. It so accurately demonstrates the painfulness of those early days when your language competency is so limited that your personality feels suppressed! A spare, straightforward poem utilising what editing intern Sabine Wilson-Patrick called a ‘blunting...
by Kate Birch | Jul 16, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
Something wholesome and devastating about this poem. It stayed with me – it grew inside me. It has a classic feel to it. The word beautiful was written over and over again in voters’ comments but there was also an ambiguity, a tinge of sadness and it is...
by Kate Birch | Jul 1, 2026 | News
selection from Babysham (if read aloud, do so in a gentle, quiet voice of a girl who is still afraid of the dark) On loving You are concerned with being a monolith. With being a museum. Poster board, boy chested, nailed to a crucifix by water lilies....
