Lorraine Carey: a poem
Still To grasp the delicacy of a wren, one must gently hold the tiny lifeless bird cupped in a palm. The weight of a one pound coin and...
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ONE HAND CLAPPING
Kate White: a poem
Now I See In the pattern of my mother's dress, polyester pinks and greys entwined with trees and hidden woodland nymphs, unseen by her...
George Neame: a poem
Perseverance From a distance, the red planet's craters must come into focus like giant "o"s shaken loose from an optician's chart. I...
Rachel Carney: a poem
I am trying not to write a poem about you Looking at Tiger in a Storm, I imagine I'm seeing it for the first time, in a gallery perhaps,...
Paul Fenn: a poem
Fearful Killer It felt like fighting not to drown, to be so near the delicate and not imagine its destruction. Every lover's neck...
O.T. Park: a poem
Our Lady Our lady is in the brambles; Wan watcher of the asphalt As it ascends to the A-road. Stands like a nosy neighbour Head cocked...
Julia Copus: a poem
Creation Myth On the narrow ridge where I and Thou meet, there is the realm of "between". Martin Buber In days where you were not, I went...
Michael Schmidt: a poem
Alone with the Hairy Ainu; Or, 3800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands by A. H. Savage Landor (1893) I was...
Will Eaves: a poem
Photograph by John Cairns Rise The cloud that echoes And the plane that enters Through a golden gap Resonate, sound a chord No one heard...
Jamie O'Halloran: a poem
Remembering the Saucer “The table is round And so is my memory” Pierre Reverdy Flowers conspire in the fireplace Casting apricot cups...
Claire Louise Hunt: a poem
Phonebooth Graveyard Below the railroad tracks, beneath the syntax of the city, rows of receivers hang their heads, mourning street...
Katerina Neocleous: a poem
Anemone Such simple chemistry unlocks a bulb's code – water, light earth, air – so you can hold its flower; like this wood anemone cupped...
Gale Acuff: a poem
Sic 'Em My dog has the mange and I mean bad, half his hair gone, leaving purple skin beneath tan fur. I'm in leg-casts up to my hips this...
Ruth Taaffe: a poem
Razorblades The bathroom cabinet held a mirror that held back razorblades, smokers' tooth polish, creams which had become a mystery to...
Tim Cumming: two poems
Photograph courtesy of Survivalphotos Night Garden Sympathetic herbs in neglected pots. The gods draw their colours here, cheeks puffed...
Jenny Hockey: a poem
Blessed He led our son onto the ice-field without an axe between them. I picture them treading like drunken ants bent under the summit,...
George Rawlins: two poems
The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis George Rawlins writes: These poems are from a book-length sequence that reimagines in fifty-seven...
Paul Attwell: a poem
Paper Snow Recurring heatwave in my throat. My tonsils, unfit for use. The hospital a tan-bricked ogre. Judas kiss from parents, but...
Mark Bolsover: a poem
of Taika & the monkeys (—fragment of-from dream). hillside. (thick grass (greenlush) (—o'ergrown). … ). ( … —down. (slope). —by the...
J.D. Murphy: a poem
The Year of the Stonemasons There will be an aw- kward opening, a blinking step from cobwebbed doorways, as if a second spring called us...
Roddy Lumsden and Fran Lock: two poems
Here, once again, is Fran's introduction: About the poems It is not easy to explain. I owe more to Roddy Lumsden than to any other figure...
Michael Schmidt: a poem
Bedside Table I put my specs on an open book under the lamp On the bedside table, and they start to read. They gather pace, they skim,...
Ben Morgan: a poem
Author's note Baba Yaga is a witch from Slavic folktale. Sometimes seen as dangerous and violent, she is also a healer and a wise woman,...
Marcia Hindson: a poem
Holmlea, Revisited Begin with the noise of birds; an owl. Add the wind, the absence of rain. Stir in the silence of an abandoned house....
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