by Fathima Zahra | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Creation Radio There was a time when I took my radio into the night wood and tuned its pyracantha needle along the dial through noise jungles to silent darkness at the waveband’s end. First there was nothing, or at least my ears couldn’t...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Greylags Find yourself by the lake, its icy membrane split by the long arrow of a skein, reflected flurry of wings, cries bawling. Knit yourself into a parcel against its shriek, the force shaping your bones, steering you somewhere off course, way...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Early Morning The terns lift as one from the salt-pools behind the beach – a thick undulating line the lazy ripple of a shaken-out duvet. They dip, rise and swirl like cream stirred through coffee and dissolve into the mist. Sarah...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Spring is in the Air Winter soil is hard and hoar crusted, birds peck with blunted beaks, pushing up are the blind green pods of what will soon be yellow daffodils, given light and air. I wait to hear news about you, hear that you resurfaced,...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Finders We scoured the parish tip most weeks, when we were kids. We clambered it in wellies. Ferals, we scavenged in the debris of the adults’ lives. Like a mad deck shuffled, our tip turned up a fat brown teapot without a lid/ a yellow rubber...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
A Basket of Nettles and Larks Life lines still arc round the base of each thumb though the bulk of hand’s muscle mass lies in the thenar bellies, now flat as linoleum and tendons smart branches when I brace fingers, interrupting hillocks of skin....
