Two poems by Ross Wilson
Vital Organs ICU, Easter, 2020 An outsider looking in might imagine they were seeing the interior of a space ship; …
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Poems from ‘The Conversation’ by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper
Emily and Jo write: “What follows is a six-poem sequence taken from the manuscript of a collaborative poetry collection, The Conversation. This collection follows …
‘Dates with the Fates’ – a short sequence by Andew Neilson
Dates with the Fates i) Clotho Her last date? Some chump called Pelops. She gave him the cold …
‘Cakes by Carol’ – a poem by Naima Rashid
Cakes by Carol It brought a strange comfort; somewhere in the folds of fondant she felt she had stowed away dreams …
Two poems in memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
Image: detail from cover of San Francisco Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights Foundation, 2003) John Gohorry Lights Poetry is …
‘Swimming’ – a poem by Rupinder Kaur
Swimming Jaan to meri jaan, my life. The ghosts of language sit at the tip of my tongue and sing meri …
Two poems by Roy Marshall
Icarus’s Mother Missing from the Musee des Beaux Arts, a portrait of the slave girl, her name unimportant or forgotten, …
Two poems by Alison Brackenbury
‘Honeymoon’ from the memoirs of Helen, widow of the poet Edward Thomas They fled, by train, to a poacher Edward …
‘The Kill’ – a poem by Andrew Jordan
Photo by Daniel Burka on Unsplash The Kill In your room, holding the cartridge, you imagined flames packed like …
‘Masks’ – a translation by April Yee of Sebastián Núñez Torres
April writes: “Chilean poet and academic Sebastián Núñez Torres (b. 1984) explores the fracturing of self and society in Las arpas rotas (Bajo …