Everyday Creativity: Inside the Minds of a Painter and a Poet
Miranda Boulton / Island Series 12, 2018 / monoprint with gouache 39 x 48cm Victoria Best For a year and a half, …
Two poems by Iain Britton
from Windows In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open …
‘Garden God’: a poem by Kevin Cahill
Garden God Easing her flip-flops and ectopic body down the lamp-post, this grasshopper of a girl fringed with electricity from São …
Two poems by John Greening
Villa D’Este More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power …
Two poems by Rachel Piercey
Small griefs, like looking up from the page and realising that the train, for quite some time, has been moving through …
Three poems by William Wootten
Mindfulness Imagine truly being in the present, Our every thought upon a plane like one Mapped out by Euclid. Here, …
‘All the Soul’s Endeavour’: where did the poetry of running go?
Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen) Ben Wilkinson Fast-forward to August of 2020 and all …
More Memorable than Sweetness: on Li-Young Lee’s poem ‘Always a Rose’
Zakia Carpenter-Hall A poet must perpetually ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, ‘What is it?’ What are the plants, animals, objects, etc. …
Three poems by Jane Lovell
The pool below the oak Remember this: a driftway brimming cow parsley, bramble, its green beaded fruits; the field into which …
‘The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus’: a poem by Andre Bagoo
image © Marlon James The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus He looks at me and sees right through me, as …