The Importance of Subjectivity in Ekphrastic Poems by Auden and Plath
Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1560 Rachel Carney What happens when you are asked to review a book or …
Three poems by Matthew Stewart
Happy Birthday …You clear them away, usher in a future not featuring you. Michael Laskey, ‘Birthday Cards’ While hunting the …
Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
The Train The concern, unspoken amongst us, was whether goodwill would hold. We’d been on the road for weeks; children walking …
‘Waterland’: a poem by Yvonne Reddick
Waterland There are still pike in Jesus Ditch. The length of three finger-joints, quicker than dactyls. Gone before you can say ‘Jack …
‘Dear Mother You’re Dying’: a poem by Aaron Kent
Dear Mother You’re Dying You are wasting away, you have cavernous sinuses and hollow flesh. Eat gracefully: there are those that …
‘Mandrake and Scammony’: on the poems of Dorothy Molloy
G.E. Stevens No more wavering… Burn through the parochial states of mind. Cut and burn away to the truth. This is Dorothy …
Two poems by Will Stone
Death of a Trophy Hunter Over the kill the larvae loom she posted on Instagram before the blood congealed, paid in …
Three poems by David Cooke
Urban Drawn to our open lawns and clipped verges, the spectral profusion of a well-stocked border or neat geometrical bed, …
Two poems by Pascale Petit
Photo credit: Brian Fraser The below poems appear in Pascale Petit’s new collection Tiger Girl, forthcoming from Bloodaxe in June. …
‘The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster’: a poem by Jennifer Edgecombe
The below poem is taken from Jennifer Edgecombe’s debut pamphlet The Grief of the Sea, forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in June. …