by Chloe Elliott | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
HERONLESS I look for him from the foot bridge he’s not in any of his usual places not mid-stream in shallows not below the arch under the road not at the corner on a stony outcrop the fishes are swimming undeterred and the day feels so...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Second Generation Upgrade I take an invisible dog on holiday to the coast, with raven feather tied to my hair and a new iphone in my bag, my passport is ready for a quick get away, and I must look a sight in these snow-boots and sunset skin. I ask...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Dane Holt’s poems have been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Trumpet, The White Review, Stand, bath magg, One Hand Clapping , Anthropocene and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of The Tangerine, a Belfast magazine of new...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Arrow that Flies by Day (Psalm 91) To my first readers I present fragments, half- rhymes, vowels, words, somewhere a metronome beats time and we split the line into syllables, metric feet, then come the myths and metaphors, music sounds near....
by Helen Ivory | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
I take a torch to 4am climb the stairs so I can be closer to the moon or Venus, something private, divine Moisture on the roof out of nowhere suggests autumn is creeping in like the possum whose red eyes in the beam are jewels of curiosity or fear...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Harlan & Siv Euglena Harlan presides at our Church of Gullibility in the Vale, accused of murdering his younger self. Prosecutor Marat Siv arrays testimony, exhibits, arguments against the Judge-Who-Rules-at-Pulpit. During a recess, Siv...
