‘Allotment Evening’: a poem by Helen Calcutt
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’: a poem by Rory Waterman
Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1 (89’) for Lloyd Pettiford and Adam Tocock The pitch is white where the …
‘Glossa’: a poem by Andreea Iulia Scridon
Glossa (in response to M. Eminescu) Remember how you starfished your way across the pool of infinity bay how you …
Four poems by James Peake
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, …
‘Time a river we swim in freestyle’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry & prose
Katie Da Cunha Lewin Throughout Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poetry as Insurgent Art, his manifesto on poetry written in aphorisms published in 2007, he …
Essential fragments: on the poetry of David Harsent
Below is an essay by Lavinia Singer from A Working Model of the Fall from Grace: Essays & Poems for David Harsent, recently published …
Two poems by Ben Wilkinson
The Flower Carrier after the painting by Diego Rivera, 1935 These blooms are for the mayor’s daughter, wedding on which …
‘Big Talk’: a poem by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Big Talk ‘when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and colour, the common man… cannot grasp their reality.’ ~ Rumi …
Try To Be Better: an engagement with the creative practice of W. S. Graham
This week sees the launch of Try To Be Better, a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of the late poet W. S. …
‘Blood in the Sky’: a poem by Alan Zhukovski
Blood in the Sky A mortar attack hit a new condominium, built just a year ago, mixing lost lives with debris, …