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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

On the Eighth Day of Christmas we bring you Anna Brook, Katherine Forbes Riley, Abigail Ottley

by | December 28, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

I thought the bingo hall had gone
but it had only lost its sign

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On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you Penny Blackburn, Fiona Larkin, Ruth Higgins

by | December 27, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall.
The wind is hag-ridden through the forest,
keening between the branches.

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On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham

by | December 26, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,

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On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

by | December 25, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

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On the Fourth Day of Christmas we bring you Adam Strickson, Rebecca Johnson Bista, Pat Edwards

by | December 24, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

Piero painted her in a week, after his mother died,
her azure gown split open like a ripe plum,
her posh girl fingers resting on the mystery,
all swollen belly and haloed radiance.

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Previously featured

Cherry Doyle

by | May 20, 2025

/ on the days / blood rushes at the corner of a nail / you cannot keep your jumper off the door handle / table tackles leg / expect the bruise in two days’ time / pansies nodding in speckles of rain /

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Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

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Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

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Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

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Max Wallis on ‘The Aftershock Review’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

What Happens After the Aftershock?

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Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

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Recent Haiku

Debbie Strange

winterberry
the first holiday
alone

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On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

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Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

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Chen-ou Liu

this fresh morning
so much like the others …
yet starlings shape-shift

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Stephen C. Curro

calm river
again, his fishing line
caught on a tree

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News

Word & Image

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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

On the Eighth Day of Christmas we bring you Anna Brook, Katherine Forbes Riley, Abigail Ottley

by | December 28, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

I thought the bingo hall had gone
but it had only lost its sign

Read More

On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you Penny Blackburn, Fiona Larkin, Ruth Higgins

by | December 27, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall.
The wind is hag-ridden through the forest,
keening between the branches.

Read More

On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham

by | December 26, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,

Read More

On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

by | December 25, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

Read More

On the Fourth Day of Christmas we bring you Adam Strickson, Rebecca Johnson Bista, Pat Edwards

by | December 24, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas | 0 Comments

Piero painted her in a week, after his mother died,
her azure gown split open like a ripe plum,
her posh girl fingers resting on the mystery,
all swollen belly and haloed radiance.

Read More

News

Word & Image

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Previously featured

Cherry Doyle

by | May 20, 2025

/ on the days / blood rushes at the corner of a nail / you cannot keep your jumper off the door handle / table tackles leg / expect the bruise in two days’ time / pansies nodding in speckles of rain /

read more

Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

Read More

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Read More

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Read More

Max Wallis on ‘The Aftershock Review’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

What Happens After the Aftershock?

Read More

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Read More

Recent Haiku

Debbie Strange

winterberry
the first holiday
alone

Read More

On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

Read More

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

Read More

Chen-ou Liu

this fresh morning
so much like the others …
yet starlings shape-shift

Read More

Stephen C. Curro

calm river
again, his fishing line
caught on a tree

Read More

Picks of the Month

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