Figures in a Landscape   Remember when the country offered a pathway to freedom? The creek lanes and brooks and railway arches, …

Image credit: © Brian Fraser   King’s College London’s popular ‘Poetry And..’ series, chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, returns on 30th November at …

  To mark the publication day of his Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry (Shoestring Press), Wild Court is featuring four new poems by …

          Mephitine   You will know me before you see me, will sense me from twenty paces. I am all sour milk …

        I remember   you were the first man who taught me about death. I was five years old; we were walking across …

        Golf Behind Trees   An elegant course is exposed by newly opened air. There used to be a thick hedge, armed with …

        On the margin   On the margin of existence on the deep-sea floor between chimneys of boiling water and venting carbon where …

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   The waters have risen; the signal has sounded in our skeletons of minimal composition. An instinct of …