A Review of Undercover Work by Nick Burbridge (Olympia Publishers, 2025) By Alan Morrison Nick Burbridge is a Brighton-based ‘stalwart of the folk revival’, a veteran songwriter-lyricist... Continue reading
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Palestinians use Gaza’s ruins to dry their laundry. Commons image By Mark Cassidy Back from the refill shop, weighed downwith staples, I pour loose flour into Kilner... Continue reading
President Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Commons image. By Violet White Behold, the wicked conceive harm,are pregnant with injustice,and give birth to lies.... Continue reading
By John Short Back in the pounding factoryI have to spend a night keepingvigil over unbaked dough: white shapes pass in squadronsI look for deformities;this is not... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi He walked — a whisper on the broken land,Twelve kilometres, barefoot in the sand.No shield but ribs, no cloak but skin and bone,A child... Continue reading
Yazan el-Kafarna, left, with his brothers Wael, centre, and Mouin [Courtesy of the el-Kafarna family] Yazan’s mother counts his bones 4:30am South CarolinaThunderous rain floods, rattles, tanglesletters... Continue reading
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. CCA-4.0 By Naomi Foyle The world is on fire –the crowded spotsof the... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi Beneath a sky that weeps like wounded skin,Gaza sighs — a caged bird held within.Her streets are stitched with ash and stone,Her lullabies are... Continue reading
by Nick Moss Ain’t a city, but the rest is true.Rocks galore, fiends cookin upIn the Tesco car park, daylight,Sun shinin. And a new batch of street... Continue reading
By Fran Lock that i might wear the robe the desert owed me. the robe the desert chose me. an insatiable staple of hair. i too have... Continue reading
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