Photo by Parichay Sen on Unsplash            Window Seat of a Train in the Past   We travel on the train …

    Photo by Alessandro Bogliari on Unsplash            Another XI   A cricket tea on a boundary edge in old heat. Trains …

  The below poem is taken from Jennifer Edgecombe’s debut pamphlet The Grief of the Sea, published by Broken Sleep Books in June 2020. It …

    Photo by Anton Murygin on Unsplash            Foxes   In the backstreets the foxes are synchronised swimmers- unaware they are in …

Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash           Captain’s Pond   I didn’t expect to find myself beside you, swatting flies and leaves …

    Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash            Catechism   In the vestibule, Mum dips her hand in holy water, blesses each …

    Photo by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash            Ancestors   Their voices – those we barely remember, those we never knew – …

    Photo by Shifaaz Shamoon on Unsplash            Lapis lazuli   On a Sardinian beach, the ambulant vendor shifts through white vesicles …

  An interview with Ian, in which he discusses themes explored in the following poems, is up concurrently on Wild Court here.         …