New work
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Lilburne’s Prayer Oh god; guide of hand and tongue through pamphlet, pillory and prisonwho walked with me from Kineton, washed me in blood all the way to Marston,who spoke within […]
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Two poems by Tess Jolly
Through an Office Window I am not at work hearing a service user saythe tremors were bad this morning, he’s been told it could be years or weeksbut he’s got no intention […]
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Two poems by Dina Kafiris
Alitheia The Greek truth –is it not every man’s truth,that the written word of the poetin its finality, will be,as we will come to know it,our only trusted ally? … […]
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Three poems by Andrew McNeillie
Spring Offensive A day to go and it will be June.Yet we’re in March-to-April weather still.Will we get there in time?All the forecasts sayit’s going to happen soon. Spilling off […]
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Two poems by Selina Tusitala Marsh
We are delighted to have former New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh as our featured reader at the inaugural event in the Wild Court Reading Series. The event – […]
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‘Aveley Lane’: a poem by Matthew Stewart
The poem below was originally published in The Spectator and appears in Matthew Stewart’s second collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don’t, forthcoming from HappenStance Press in November. A launch for […]
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Three poems by Teresa Forrest
Versions of the poems below appear in Teresa Forrest’s debut pamphlet, The Stories in Between, forthcoming as part of the Five Leaves New Poetry series. The pamphlet will be launched […]
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‘Fairey’: a poem by John Greening
The poem below is from John Greening’s The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022, edited by Kevin Gardner (Baylor University Press, 2023). The volume’s UK launch will take place at Hatchards, […]
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Two poems by Chiara Salomoni
Veneto Bassano is my birthplace wherethe Dal Ponte family were born and worked on the six paintingsI counted at the Louvre years ago: true sketches of 16th-century folklife,religious works; realistic […]
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Two poems by Richie McCaffery
Image © Gerry Cambridge Scrap Your last words to me were written, not spoken,a paper cut severing us and our shared 14 yearsbecause you felt it was for the good […]
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‘Siena 1978’: a poem by Bernard O’Donoghue
Siena 1978 ‘the red-haired girl from Palaeography’ The photograph was taken when the sun broke throughAnd shone on the copper red of her hairAs we sat in the Piazza del […]
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‘The Ghost of Emily Hale Replies to T. S. Eliot’: a poem by Nicola Healey
The Ghost of Emily Hale Replies to T. S. Eliot ‘I see myself as a blood-sucker’– T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Emily Hale (2 August 1934) Our posthumous […]
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‘What the Arborist Saw’: a poem by Audrey Molloy
What the Arborist Saw A cat, among the finches, the sparrows and the wrens.A cat, stuck, in the highest fork of a sycamorethe afternoon he scooped her in one fluidmovement […]
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‘Ghost and Chrome’: a poem by Nicholas Hogg
Ghost and Chrome I wanted a life like a burning comet, and got an engine fireon the Nullaboor Plain. I was riding at the heart of Australia,the red dirt towns […]
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Three poems by Dina Kafiris
Maria Dear old man, why do you sit alonereflecting on a war fought long ago on the young girlwho spent with you those last few daysleaving you with the promise […]
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‘Arctic’: a poem by Christian Ward
Arctic The first time you tasted chemotherapy,there were no side effects apart from an Arcticchill turning your lips blue like the wiryhospital blanket you wrapped yourself in. You shivered the […]
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‘Football in the marshes’: a poem by Nikos Keim
Football in the marshes Bright green from the black earthAs the teams in their primary coloursMove like tides across the luscious turfCries sharpen on the cold airAnd I pass, wishing […]
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‘The Little One’: a poem by Idman Omar
The Little One is a madam, is more parrotthan fluffy bunny, more myselfclotted. Is the drink of the sky, thevisitor of my life. Wakes my metal heart withgaping cries and […]
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Two poems by Anthony White
The Ungodly Hour of the Morning …comes later now than then.When my mother hissed from the top of the stairs“I told you to be home by tenI’ve been worried sick”, […]
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‘Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis’: a poem by Saul Levene
Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis, the Hunter You kneel in the underbrush clutching a knife in one hand, antler in the other, sawing, blistering away in the […]