Bologna   A terracotta forest of distorted towers: medieval Manhattan where Dante wandered. Madonnas nestled at the corner of each via: mounds …

                                                                                     Photo credit: Adrian Pope         You & me & the incredibly distant island universes   1.   The man behind the glass …

  Below are three poems from Richard Skinner’s new pamphlet The Malvern Aviator, recently published by Smokestack Books.          Dark Nook   I am Egbert …

  Below is a poem from the sequence ‘Rhine Fugue’ by Hilary Davies, which appears in her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom (Enitharmon, 2016). …

        Water of Leith   By the water of Leith you sit & think of the day. Scrolling down, seeing bad news, you …

         The Skin of Epimenides   Read The Seven Sages and you’re asked to believe this loner cured all Athens of disease, backwards …

  Below are three poems from Emily Hasler’s debut collection The Built Environment, published this month by Pavilion Poetry. The Built Environment is being launched …

        Shadow Tale   In the tree, down the trunk, on the curb and then running in front of a car. Experience has …

  Below are four poems from the sequence ‘Antigeorgics’ by James Brookes, which appears in his second full collection, Spoils, published this month by Offord …

  Below are five poems from Patrick Davidson Roberts’s debut collection, The Mains, recently published by Vanguard Editions. The collection is being launched at the …