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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jena Woodhouse
Around midnight, the hour when pain
reasserts its dominance, a voice
behind the curtain screening
my bed from the next patient’s:
an intonation penetrating abstract thoughts
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Previously featured
Jena Woodhouse
Around midnight, the hour when pain
reasserts its dominance, a voice
behind the curtain screening
my bed from the next patient’s:
an intonation penetrating abstract thoughts
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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Reviews
Claire Booker reviews ‘John Dust’: poems by Louise Warren, ink drawings by John Duffin
Poetry comes from a deeply personal inner landscape. But what happens when external geographies bring their own emotional and social clout to the party? Enter John Dust – the...
Kathryn Alderman reviews ‘Hex’ by Jennie Farley
As with her previous collection, My Grandmother Skating (Indigo Dreams), Hex explores ‘the extraordinary with the everyday […] myth, magic and fairy tale’, but goes darker. It quotes...
Setareh Ebrahimi reviews ‘The Shape of a Tulip Bird’ by Christopher Hopkins
This book has an unusual premise in that it’s about something you wouldn’t want to read about. It’s about one of the most difficult subjects – child loss – and yet Hopkins’ writing...



