This month Ruth Padel presents a major new work, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life, published in the 250th year of Beethoven’s birth. Below …

        Cults of Broadland   Fen raft spider   Let us venerate niche and otherness, local, patch-level occurrence – take the fen raft …

        The Roseland Peninsula   Tell me now – how often do we live in our own description? (Charles Tomlinson)   Looking west, …

        Parable II   Here, lads, this song, No Eyes, reminds me when – this the common end to a normal night, being …

Miranda Boulton / Island Series 12, 2018 / monoprint with gouache 39 x 48cm     Victoria Best   For a year and a half, …

      from Windows   In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open …

        Garden God   Easing her flip-flops and ectopic body down the lamp-post, this grasshopper of a girl fringed with electricity from São …

        Villa D’Este   More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power …

        Small griefs,   like looking up from the page and realising that the train, for quite some time, has been moving through …

          Mindfulness   Imagine truly being in the present, Our every thought upon a plane like one Mapped out by Euclid. Here, …