by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Fantastic rugged imagery, metal and manacles, capturing essences of both masculinity and heart. It showed vulnerability, It was beautiful, spare, imagist. It was a reflection of men’s suppressed emotions. It was powerful, poignant, moving, beautiful to read...
by Kate Birch | May 21, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
I like its flow, its unexpectednesses, its disguised rhythms, its mysteries, its afterglows….. In the end, it was the language, the imagery and the mystery of the poem that decided the outcome of what was a very close race and saw ‘When an albatross crash-lands...
by Kate Birch | Apr 20, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
It’s a fine piece of short, sharp poetry which instantly creates two believable characters and a tense drama in a few lines. EXCELLENT You loved the story behind the poem. You loved its mystery. You loved the characters of the two sisters and the strength of...
by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
the sense of loss and ending Words that capture voters’ instinctive response to David’s authentic, elegiac ‘The Old Fishing Village’ and saw this poem voted as Pick of the Month for February 2023. David has one book (The Rare Bird Recovery Protocol, Cinnamon)...
by Kate Birch | Mar 9, 2023 | News
J V Birch Originally published 4th May 2022 Jenny Pagdin Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building and the concrete bus station and its standing water, we were Hampshire, Beirut and Freetown with neat shelves of Vimto, ivory, Milupa, of Milton,...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2023 | News
You are invited to come and listen to some of Grant’s poet friends read from the...
