© Racheal Da Silva Burton         Packhorse   Bring on the bit and curb, the saddle, the saddlebag; broad animal, steady it goes for its own name being […]

        Death in the form of a child   When you came alive, I leant in, a red flower to your whisper. What you said, was dark. Darkness, […]

© Jan Bella       Cannula   after Matthew Siegel   The sea is not as white as I expected. A lifeguard tapes gauze on my baby’s hand, secures the […]

© Gerry Cambridge         Inversnaid   (for Chris Powici, & i.m. Helen Lamb)   The time I visited him before this he still had a partner and I […]

Gurnard’s Head, west of Zennor   Monday 19th November is the late poet WS Graham’s 100th birthday. Below is a poem by Matthew Francis from The Caught Habits of Language, […]

        Three Sonnets   From brown on brown, a tall fawn eating blackberries. Look how it hasn’t seen me yet – head in the bushes full of flies, […]

Site of Hitler’s Berghof, Obersalzberg, October 2018 © Will Stone     Below are three poems from Will Stone’s most recent collection, The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman). Notes on each poem follow […]

        Aptenodytes forsteri and the imperial egg   Converge as the centre is everything in the deep Antarctic winter. Begin the clockwise shuffle towards the time of birth. […]

      Twa Pixels   As I was walking all alane / I heard twa corbies makin a mane …               — from the medieval ballad ‘Twa Corbies,’ in Scots […]

  This summer saw the release of Adam Warne’s debut pamphlet, Suffolk Bang, published by Gatehouse Press. Warne’s fractured, ‘spooked songs’ draw on folklore and an ethnographic study of his […]

  Below are three poems from Sarah Law’s new pamphlet My Converted Father, recently published by Broken Sleep Books.         Hobbies   I’ve had my enthusiasms, admits my […]

        Bologna   A terracotta forest of distorted towers: medieval Manhattan where Dante wandered. Madonnas nestled at the corner of each via: mounds of sacred hearts, altars of […]

                                                                                     Photo credit: Adrian Pope         You & me & the incredibly distant island universes   1.   The man behind the glass removes his gloves. The man […]

  Below are three poems from Richard Skinner’s new pamphlet The Malvern Aviator, recently published by Smokestack Books.          Dark Nook   I am Egbert Clague. I come every morning […]

  Below is a poem from the sequence ‘Rhine Fugue’ by Hilary Davies, which appears in her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom (Enitharmon, 2016). A note by Hilary follows […]

        Water of Leith   By the water of Leith you sit & think of the day. Scrolling down, seeing bad news, you kept a straight face. Told […]

         The Skin of Epimenides   Read The Seven Sages and you’re asked to believe this loner cured all Athens of disease, backwards prophet who saw past not […]

  Below are three poems from Emily Hasler’s debut collection The Built Environment, published this month by Pavilion Poetry. The Built Environment is being launched at the University of Liverpool […]

        Shadow Tale   In the tree, down the trunk, on the curb and then running in front of a car. Experience has taught me if it doesn’t […]