Fran Lock: a poem
Dr Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and of numerous chapbooks, most recently...
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ONE HAND CLAPPING
Mehvash Amin: a poem
Grandfather Peeling back his eyelids to contest the glistening tongue of morning that rose to his memory, he could not see. And so he...
Rebecca Gethin: a poem
Ghost Ship No one but she is aware of the whale baleen inserted in her stay like a sword in a scabbard. He'd carved his ship with a...
Suzanne Lummis: a poem
Flour, Eggs, Milk, Baking Powder, Salt and God O Best Beloved, tell me, if you know, why – the world over – when that woman bending...
Steve Shepherd: a poem
Photograph by Steve Shepherd for non-catholic foreigners, rome alongside shelley and keats belinda lee, born in devon 1935 thrown from...
Ali Whitelock: a poem
love in the time of celery i always imagined my yellow brick road would lead me to a future, if not emerald, at least the colour of pale...
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,...
Louisa Campbell: a poem
Pulteney Weir I want it like this, but without the dark water, without the signs: NO DIVING! KEEP OUT! I want to rest here, but without...
Alice Hiller: a poem
performance amphitheatres are carved from bones and stagger into stone have traps in their floors troughs to drain blood bars protect the...
June Wentland: a poem
Consider the choices that you made * All those options that seemed available to you were what you could afford. You bring with you, your...
Jim Cory: a poem
17 A small-town clothier in thrall to political ideas but minus any ability to generate same parlays a talent for stump speaking into...
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive #5
They Spoke to Me of People, and of Humanity They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've...
Louise Peterkin: a poem
Toes And the little one carries a blade. The barb of too-long pinkie nail leaves blood-sludge on tights like rust on a car; the one...
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...
Chella Courington: a poem
Jeopardy My father built biceps working for US Steel smelting iron in heat that humbled men. Now I could break his arm over my knee,...
Zita Izso: a poem
Photograph by Laura Veres To Endure Until The Third Day He told them to leave the mountain when the time came, to run around the lake...
Alan Humm: a poem
The Peak District Evening. The grass, as bright as snow, thickens and dulls; becomes a mottled flank. It breathes, I swear. The starkness...
Suzanne Lummis: a poem
The Horrible Hand - for Lawrence Raab wakes up in a bad mood, hung over, strung out, just horrible. You've heard of hard cases who crawl...
Fizza Abbas: a poem.
Bonfire Charred trees stand still. Their baggage makes them strong. Smoke drifting over the paddock becomes a drifting song A barren...
Sarah Dixon: a poem
Waiting in the tunnel Each year as I reached up on tiptoes my fingers explored a new ledge. My breath held in the darkness between two...
Maya Jewell Zeller: a poem
On 5 April 1884 Tolstoy "got up late". Maya, one hundred thirty-six years later, did the same. What it was was raining that's what it was...
Agnes Marton: a poem
Image by Rusudan Appearance(s) In the fog it's a question of who to trust. You might be a barista or a wolf. Behind mask and protective...
Marion Oxley: a poem
A Crocodile in Neverland After Lisa Black’s "Fixed Crocodile". Lisa Black is a New Zealand artist who often combines taxidermied animals...
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive #4
As a Human Being There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve. They sit apart from one another The way you and your...
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