by Kate Birch | Oct 20, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
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 choose: Sharon Black, ‘Free Range’: a poem on the edge of human/creature experience Anna Bowles,...
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....
