
‘Aubade’: a poem by Rituparna Sahoo
Photo by Cecile Hournau on Unsplash Aubade Waking at five, I stare at the shimmering diaphanous curtains as the window square …
Photo by Cecile Hournau on Unsplash Aubade Waking at five, I stare at the shimmering diaphanous curtains as the window square …
Photo by Shapelined on Unsplash Games Each week it was the same – the PE teacher would pick his …
Ulixes mosaic at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia. 2nd century AD. Lily Searstone Tennyson’s nuanced reworking of Homeric epic in his …
Daniel Bennett The poems in this luminous book, Bloom (Pavilion Press, 2021) are tight, fragmented things, varying in shape and typesetting, in a …
Photo by Matt Brown on Unsplash Orpheus’s Awakening That moment Orpheus looked back, He knew what he had lost: …
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 …
Gypsy moth Taurus Mountains, the fiery air of Mesopotamia; she waits for it to caress her. It doesn’t. The English cousin. But …
Rory Waterman writes: This is a slightly edited short excerpt from my recent book Wendy Cope (Liverpool University Press, 2021), reprinted here with thanks …