Two poems by Nick Makoha
Codex 3 We were thirty. Another day was ending as a mosquito landed at the edge of my hand. You ordered two …
‘Mephitine’: a poem by Sarah Doyle
Mephitine You will know me before you see me, will sense me from twenty paces. I am all sour milk top-notes, …
Two poems by Jennifer Lee Tsai
I remember you were the first man who taught me about death. I was five years old; we were walking across …
‘No right or wrong, only how I got here’: The Early Poetry of Richie McCaffery
Photo image: © Gerry Cambridge Jonathan Davidson In his second pamphlet, Ballast Flint (Small Press Publishing for Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013, with …
Two translations by James Owens
The Death of Dido —Aeneid IV, 692-705 She searched the sky for light, and moaned to find it. Then mighty …
Two poems by Oliver Comins
Golf Behind Trees An elegant course is exposed by newly opened air. There used to be a thick hedge, armed with …
On ‘Belladonna’ by Suna Afshan
Daniel Bennett Both grounded and detached, playing with a sense of narrative but also revelling in the rarefied brightness of the image, …
‘On the margin’ – a poem by Stephen Miller
On the margin On the margin of existence on the deep-sea floor between chimneys of boiling water and venting carbon where …
Three poems by Hannah Lowe
image © Dirk Skiba Sonnet for the British-Born And suddenly, new language: ‘British-Born’, for kids who grew up on terraces in …
‘Arachnid: Flight After Deluge’ – a poem by Naima Rashid
Arachnid: Flight After Deluge The waters have risen; the signal has sounded in our skeletons of minimal composition. An instinct of …