by Kate Birch | Oct 14, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative, timely and poignant Jenny Pagdin’s ‘Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building’ resonated with so many of you. You loved that you knew the place but understood, too, the different feelings that it could provoke, felt the sense of not quite...
by Kate Birch | Oct 6, 2022 | News
This questionnaire comprised part of my Masters’ independent research project on ecopoetry. Our climate emergency is evidenced in increasingly devastating weather events and yet, there is still resistance to altering our behaviours, to challenge the destructive...
by Kate Birch | Oct 1, 2022 | News
LEOTARD I am a small parcel a small peach in a brown paper bag a tightly cornered hot-crossed bun I tremble in a tin I love Victorian buildings I fall asleep in a red Renault Cleo am so kind am so tired go for the bread at...
by Kate Birch | Sep 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Climber and volcano – the fusion of imagery. Power of grit and determination. You know when a work of art or literature takes you to another place, to the limits? Well Camille McCawley’s ‘Maungawhau’ does just that and it is for this reason that this...
by Kate Birch | Sep 1, 2022 | News
A Smear of Lineage / I Tried ‘This piece was written for the co-curation initiative with Manchester Poetry Library, seeking to introduce Imazighen and French poetry to the library’s shelves. A Smear of Lineage / I Tried explains the difficulty of...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Family. Food. Heritage. Continuity. Love A comment that says it all and, after a closely fought contest, was almost certainly the reason that Lalah-Simone Springer pipped her rivals at the post with her poem ‘Dasheen’ becoming the Pick of the Month for July 2022....
