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, …
Marratide: William Martin’s Chorography of County Durham
‘Cuthbert’s brief dream / And high resting place / Here before Durham’ (s.16): Warden Law by William Martin, part of ‘Wiramutha Helix’ …
A poem from ‘Fighters, Losers’ by Declan Ryan
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 …
Three poems by Kate Behrens
Dream Lover Next to a Spanish river, I tell him my body is ruined. Not existing, he doesnʼt mind: I like …