by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The rain is expected to stop in 8 minutes and start again in 29 minutes I am lying on grass There is blue sky above me And an aeroplane And a fly I am a David Hockney painting (Minus the fly) I work as a volunteer at Oxfam putting donated clothes...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Lung Men Look at the faint rain twisting itself into the ground, making dry things resign themselves to different states of damp. Watch silent doors opening, closing, think of climbed stairs, rooms reached. Hear minds unslam, shadows chewing soft...
by Kate Birch | Sep 1, 2024 | Featured, News, Poetry
Badriya Abdullah is the fifth student to be awarded the University of East Anglia’s Birch Family Scholarship set up to support UK-based poetry MA students from the Black, Asian, Latinx and other global majority communities. This was established by IS&T...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 31, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Interview Response after Yaël Farber Nothing I can tell you to answer your question — all I can muster is that it was that production of King Lear, Edgar emerging raw and fresh and naked from the storm, unrecognisable even to himself, his father blind and suicidal but...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 30, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Small hours chat (after The Poet or Half-past Three by Marc Chagall 1911-12) O celebrated bard, you should know espresso mixed with drags of Gauloise won’t steady your head. Your pondweed face betrays chaos, lays bare a wretched heart, while cubist-dissected skin...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Half Past Eleven Much like a burnt-out farmer flumping down upon his ache-allaying, tender bed past toiling in the unforgiving sun, Ma does the same when stove-led tasks are done, heat-pillaged, sapped, and flabby at the head, with arms full splayed. Throughout her...
