by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 17, 2026 | Reviews, Uncategorized
When Karen McCarthy Woolf begins Unsafe with an epigraph from Romantic poet John Clare, the son of a farmer who witnessed the rights to the countryside transfer from common people to private landowners, we are promised a grapple with the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Morning mis-en-scène Silence draped across the furniture like fine webbing to catch intruders. Toys left mid-performance, before bedtime’s siren, you marching upstairs. Night made an exhibit of you, a collection of imprints in the mess. I give...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Before It Had a Name Nothing was wrong yet. That’s the easiest lie to remember. It was just a shift— sleep a little lighter, thoughts a little louder, a need for something I couldn’t quite name. I still showed up. Still laughed at the right...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Earth-bound The gardener has mown the lawn where the bluebells grew… If you looked carefully maybe you’d see an indentation where a woman lay down for half an hour one May afternoon on that sea of tranquillity and floated for a while outside her...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Moth My first of the season, its legs, tiny head and wings in permanent suspension above an exposition of the Enlightenment. I wasn’t really thinking, I just snapped shut at the right moment and now have it forever skipping for sheer joy. ...
by Elontra Hall | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Passage to London Spring has come to swing his hammer, to drive crocuses forth from the leaf-scattered soil. Look at the workmen raising their scaffolding, opening roofs where the old tiles lay. While daisies peer shyly towards a pale sun I up and depart on the...
