Image by chin1031 from Pixabay           Him   Our wonderful man with metal hands, his huge heart physical inside us. Our tiny steps in his shoes. […]

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash       Michael writes: Both the title and tone of this poem are inspired by Michèle Lalonde’s famous 1974 macaronic poem ‘Speak White’ […]

  The poem below appears in Christopher Horton’s pamphlet, Perfect Timing, published by tall-lighthouse and available to purchase here. ‘Cabbages’ ruminates on the speaker’s grandfather and a series of wartime […]

  Photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash           Blue Mountain   We had passed halfway point. Every muscle in my body was singing, brimming with lactic […]

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash           An Away Match   One long and wide hall filled with dancers limbering and jostling at each of three […]

  The poem below appears in Rebecca Farmer’s new pamphlet, A Separate Appointment, published by New Walk Editions on 16th November. Rebecca will be launching A Separate Appointment jointly on […]

Photo by Ahmed Zayan on Unsplash       from Five Poems for Mushrooms         Collared Earth Star   Undeterred by lax mornings of noiseless rain. I […]

Photo by Krišjānis Kazaks on Unsplash           Chris’s Room   When Auden bought his first home- a farmhouse in Kirchstetten- he wept tears of happiness for […]

  Photo by 青 晨 on Unsplash           CT Scan   When x-rayed in slices, at least an idea of wholeness shrinks into blatant meat: bone, […]

Photo of Tbilisi by Eugene Chystiakov on Unsplash       Climbing Tbilisi   Above the brick-domed baths of Abanotubani, rare trees ache with invasion and enemy grab. City spreads, […]

V.E. Day in Selwyn Road, Cambridge. Author pictured in back row, third from the left.       V.E. Day   She holds a finger to her chin. Flowers bind […]

Photo by Mediocre Studio on Unsplash           She puts away childish things   Early mornings – I would turn no light on, open no curtain, and […]

Photo by Ben Allan on Unsplash         Not Harlem but Close   The place that produced me was heavy as the heavens. Its tiger tooth pinched monthly, […]

          Aged   I’m thinking again of Gallagher’s strat. You can’t get that sweated scrubbed-out look from a custom shop, and you can’t cheat it down […]

Photo by bennoptic on Unsplash           Silence   A squirrel scampers the wall of the nature reserve In this idyll I’m not sure I fully deserve, […]

          The Form of an Armoured Car (Belfast, 1977)   A Saracen’s squat tonnage shudders through the lines of flat-faced houses. Its heartbeat pulses on their […]

Photo by Dagmara Dombrovska on Unsplash         Landskein   The hut tilted and in came the tide, gathering jars and books from my shelves – but it […]

‘The Nightmare’ by John Henry Fuseli, oil on canvas, 1781           Gothic   Where are you now? At the first flush of dawn everything pitched with […]

Fotheringhay © Kevin Gardner           Church Crawling for Kevin Gardner   Leighton Bromswold Yes, locked, of course. And once we find the key it’s comically huge, […]