it’s hard at first to comprehend the sleeping man so horizontal all through the day so sleepy despite the hours spent seemingly at …

    Below are two poems from Lisa Kelly’s debut collecton A Map Towards Fluency, recently published by Carcanet.           Colchester Native …

          Allotment Evening   You left the fire burning. The smoke stirred like a person moving among the brassicas and twine, and …

          Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1 (89’)   for Lloyd Pettiford and Adam Tocock   The pitch is white where the …

        Glossa   (in response to M. Eminescu)   Remember how you starfished your way across the pool of infinity bay how you …

  James Peake’s debut collection, Reaction Time of Glass, will be published by Two Rivers Press on 21st July. Below are four poems by James, …

        The Flower Carrier   after the painting by Diego Rivera, 1935   These blooms are for the mayor’s daughter, wedding on which …

        Big Talk   ‘when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and colour, the common man… cannot grasp their reality.’ ~ Rumi …

        Blood in the Sky   A mortar attack hit a new condominium, built just a year ago, mixing lost lives with debris, …

  Below is a poem from Declan Ryan’s new pamphlet, Fighters, Losers, published this week by New Walk Editions and available to buy here. Declan …