Waiting for Huck Finn’s Raft by Fred Voss I remember the old longhaired turret lathe operatorstandingon the sidewalk outside the big 100-year-old wooden doorof the old downtown... Continue reading
Green and Pleasant Land by Peter Devonald Beauty is now just shattered glass glistening, reflecting blood drenched red moons sighing,smashed dreams of a once happy and pleasant... Continue reading
Citius. Altius. Fortius. Summer ’24 by Arran Potts This is the kick. After a dirty racefought with elbows andspikes dragged through skin.Masked flags and anthemscoached into your... Continue reading
Rioter by Claudia Court He arrives on scene with just a pinch of resentment a teaspoon of fight swirling in his heart stirred by his belief that... Continue reading
The Immigrant In The Room – And On The Street by David Erdos It seems quiet here now, and yet Uxbridge neighbours Hounslow,As do other strained suburbs... Continue reading
May/Oral by Jo Colley Put on a hi-viz jacket, and you could be anyone, here in sprawling Teesside hinterlands: aspirational, Houchened, overlooked, with only ourselves to think... Continue reading
Swimming in a fishbowl of piranhas by Sam Friedman There is not a lot of poetryin a job from 9 to 5and this tiny rhythmic remnantlives in... Continue reading
Image above: Jose Guadalupe Posada’s Gran Calavera Eléctrica BELOW IS THE REVISED CALLOUT: PLEASE NOTE NEW GUIDELINES AND NEW DEADLINE OF 10 OCTOBER 2024 Donald Trump has already... Continue reading
I was recently in Berlin for the first time. I was invited for the 25th annual Poesiefestival. I was nervous. As the last of my circle to... Continue reading
Jim Aitken introduces Sapling and Wood by David Betteridge, available here A sapling, as we know, is a young tree. If this young tree manages to grow... Continue reading