Zita Izso: a poem
Photograph by Laura Veres Calcutta To Vanessa Loureiro First we had nothing. We started to bury the stillborn adults, those beyond...
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ONE HAND CLAPPING
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,...
Nicola Nathan: two poems
Moments from Thumbelina's Other Life Author's Note Tiny is another name for Thumbelina, the protagonist of Hans Christian Andersen's...
Susan Butler: a poem
Striae* Ask the artist to make the true belly of the mother his muse to colour the life lines that ripple like prayer flags to draw the...
Patrick Roberts: a poem
The Telegraph Line There was horror I carry a half-weight as my portion and sleep when I can For you brother tell me tell me of...
Alan Humm: a poem
Photograph by Harriet Griffey It will all be discarded in the end It will all be discarded in the end: the sea and strand; the stark...
Jane Campbell: a poem
Photograph by Kitchou Kristina Mighty I dreaded us losing our Gruffalo dad, an army of hands and feet the strict skin of him towering, so...
John Lanyon: a poem
The Song of the Instrument Case I take the hard knocks, the gaze of strangers. It's me who feels the weather. Heavy and awkward, a thing...
Nick Allen: a poem
what a storm did in that moment before the rain came on when the light fell to shimmering and it was too dark to read at the table ...
Maggie Sawkins: a poem
Stone It's impossible to be alive and to fake stillness as if a stone had taken possession of your mind. It's impossible to drain black...
Nkateko Masinga: a poem
Wake it is simpler to haul myself into grief than out of it. what is to excavate when others remain underground? what is to extricate...
Louise Peterkin: a poem
O Chorizo Chop it this way: the horseshoe clean down the middle, half in the fridge for later. Now peer into its universe, gemmed and...
Suzanne Lummis: a poem
Wonder Woman, Private Eye "Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, strong as Hercules, swift as...", etc. ...OK, it's Hermes, in case...
Stephen Boyce: a poem
Heliotrope I read somewhere that the light-emitting child is a known phenomenon. Her luminous face astonishes like birdsong in a desert,...
Elizabeth Barrett: a poem
Honeysuckle 1. And one day I couldn't bear it – the way its thin tendrils trailed through the trellis, twisting and tangling, knotting...
John Short: a poem
The Words Impossible to relax as the inside of my skull was stuffed with words and it would be necessary to release them somehow. There...
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko: a poem
Foreign Film We travel between horizons you and I in linear e-motion one word after the other one space to the next Upper and lower...
Agnes Marton: a poem
Painting by Rusudan Free Range He promised no part of my body would go to waste. I would be eaten from nose to tail. "Yes or no?" "Yes."...
Mick Farren: a poem
At the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque As I trespassed in the leisured luxury only the rich enjoy, she came to visit. I knew she was an...
Lauren Scharhag: a poem
Supernatural Latinos… are big moviegoers – 22 percent of audiences on any given weekend. But when it comes to horror, that proportion...
George Neame: a poem
Eating in Orbit breakfasting in a solar marble haze, tearing open silver sacks of freeze-dried dinners. we could have tasted every fruit...
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive #6
Ode The streets are empty but a crowd has gathered in the air. Trombones and cellos on the balconies, a song gradually taking hold. The...
Josephine Balmer: a translation
Josephine Balmer writes: "After hearing his nephew sing one of Sappho's lyric songs, the Athenian lawgiver Solon ordered the boy to teach...
Louise Peterkin: a poem
Close I was always late that summer. Reckoning it better to call in sick I drifted towards the lake around two. Grander, far, far...
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