My body is not your soapbox by Cheryl Vail you are not the arbiter of my curve appealthe constable ticketing the lack of a gap between thighsor... Continue reading
The Neo-colonialist Dreams by Kevin Higgins Of moving the horn of Africa to the same time zone as Wisconsin. Of teaching Somalishow to properly appreciate cheese.Of surgeons... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews Bernie Crawford’s new collection, Living Water, Chaffinch Press 2021. Bernie Crawford’s debut collection is a profound pleasure to read. It is informed and heightened... Continue reading
Black Rapunzel by Jenny Mitchell Family gathers in these plaits,each parting like a grave for people forced to work the cane, colour of my scalp,sun beating on... Continue reading
Take the Step by Yanis Iqbal Tremblingly and caressingly, The sun spins a thread of morning From the depths and dregs of yesterday’s night, Aware that nothing... Continue reading
Labouring the point – a colonial question by Alexis Lykiard The endless, questionable anti-Semitism fussIs media-stoked to fool the credulous and hoodwink us –All those presuming to... Continue reading
I keep forgetting that I live in London by Robert Yates the clientele abusing the computers in the library consist of:hyperactive schoolkids for whom this is a... Continue reading
To George, from Sunny Wigan by Christopher Norris At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick... Continue reading
The Highroad Shrine by Ruth Valentine Permit me, this morning, the luxury of despair.The ice has vanished:no skidding cars screeching to take the corner,child in the back... Continue reading