by Kate Birch | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro fiction both spare, both powerful. But while Sanah Ahsan’s ‘fresher’ is...
by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Creative thinking outside the box …describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective, ‘fiery imagery and subversion of religious tropes’, that it...
by Kate Birch | May 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: ‘This poem takes you by surprise…’ The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a completely different destination. It is for this reason, then,...
by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
It is spare, subtle and profound. These words that really do sum up Hiram Larew’s superb poem ‘Hardly’ and are an illustration of why it has been voted as the Pick of the Month for March 2022. Voters read his poem again and again to gauge the meaning behind his subtle...
by Kate Birch | Mar 12, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
It almost feels like my life has been sort of summed up in verse. We are always in awe of those who speak more than one language fluently, even more so when a poet writes in their second or even third language. But we rarely see the doubts behind...
by Kate Birch | Feb 14, 2022 | Picks of the Month
… it’s so real. The movement of the poem without breath evokes exactly the situation it describes The wonderfully titled ‘A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We Move the Time of Evensong’ by Manon Ceridwen James is the...
