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...
by Kate Birch | Feb 14, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Written beautifully with a deep message and theme that crosses multiple paradigms A spare elegant poem but one with deeper meanings. And a duck. This unique poem made voters think. They kept going back to it again and again and, so, it is for this reason that...
by Kate Birch | Feb 1, 2023 | News
I REWIND THE SECOND MY MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD BREAKS I am below her when it happens: She let’s go of the banyan’s hanging roots, her body launched into bulbul’s arc on the upswing, so many ixora blooms clouding through her cheeks My mouth wants itself a perpetual hole for...
