‘Music of the Republic’: a poem by Ruth Padel
Music of the Republic You were with him in his final hours… Carolyn Forché, ‘Last Bridge’ Plato put a spell …
‘Ablutions’: a poem by Nadia Saward
Ablutions I sat with her body until morning. The blueblack cold mimicked her blueblack skin. I chafed her feet with lemon-scented …
‘Dear Sydney Graham’: a poem by Daniel Hinds
Dear Sydney Graham ‘Under your blue hat.’ – W. S. Graham, ‘Dear Bryan Wynter’ I My feet wear odd socks …
‘A March Nest’: a poem by Gregory Leadbetter
A March Nest A tilt of the light and I wake with a twig in my mouth, building between the shoots …
‘Epithalamion: A Wicklow Triptych’ by Tarn MacArthur
I. Avondale House I wanted to bring you to a place of meaning, meaning, I wanted to bring you somewhere that …
Three poems by Clare Crossman
Photo by Gary Butterfield The below poems are taken from Clare’s new collection The Mulberry Tree, forthcoming from Shoestring Press later this year. …
On Martin Booth’s ‘The Knotting Poems’
The main part of Knotting in 1884. Courtesy of the Bedfordshire County Archives. John Greening It’s unlikely that many readers will remember …
Two poems by Kathryn Simmonds
Photo by Marten Bjork Premier Inn You, who have been sought in all the lonely places, (should my mouth be berries …
Two poems by Martyn Crucefix
Enviousness You’ve fought this for so long but comes the time you understand you are second rate no more that brightness …
Devilled Almonds and Doomed Boys: some avant-garde poetry of 1920
Portrait of Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915 Mark Valentine The copy of The Wooden Pegasus (1920) by Edith Sitwell that I …