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
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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
A Golden Shovel, from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 2 Written Upon the Green Party Winning Four Seats by Julian Bishop A musk rose budding, rosette for a... Continue reading
Euro 2024 by Steve Pottinger the bees dropping into the poppies in my gardendo not care that Saka’s scored a screamerthat the mood in the Red Lion... Continue reading
Steel Brotherhood by Fred Voss 47 years ago in the steel mill I remembera steelworker picking up 2 steel shanksand knocking them togetherso they rang out in... Continue reading
A Gaza Hunt (after: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen) by Ruth Aylett We’re going on a food huntlet’s hope we find someI’m not... Continue reading
Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith or, 58 and Not Out by David Erdos Would John Smith be pleased? Yes, of course. To... Continue reading
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