Category: Poetry

The little house I visit in my dreams is not the same place where I was born; no, this place is much further from town in an unfamiliar neighbourhood to the east. I thought I’d find this place filled with music, Chinese vases and antique Persian rugs. But in the end, this place had no […]
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Skimming a Stone

A poem by Charlie Bird about relationship breakdown

PUBLISHED ON: 01/04/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

I am at the stony beach by the river with both sons. They are old enough not to be eating stones anymore. They have a net to fish for fish, and for st …

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Tutankhamun’s Wet Nurse Imagines Herself as the Goddess Nut

Poem about mythology, inequality, maternity and female power by Cheryl Pearson

PUBLISHED ON: 01/04/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

stars in my hair                   dragonflies padding each shoulder      a blue mole cuddles each toe           I hold two worlds together            …

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Practice

Poem about social distancing as a metaphor of divided loyalty, by Elisabeth McKetta

PUBLISHED ON: 01/04/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

For seventy days we practised at home all forms of being safe: the short, masked walks, the long hand washes, the being as self- contained as the sun. …

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Dad’s Plot

A poem by Ellie Rees

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

You coaxed these tendrils clock-wise around each stick, secured them with string; now the vine’s once-youthful winding, nakedly exposed, is stiffer th …

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For Couples Considering Divorce

Poem by Jenna V Sumpter

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

  Just outside Las Vegas, NV, Ginnungagap Hotel advertises its indoor watercourse to precariously married couples   Take one week off from j …

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Wander

Poem by David Ishaya Osu

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

The trench coat she wore didn’t look like her sorrow. She told me about wandering the streets of London to keep her mind busy, to keep her mind going …

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The Reckoning

Poem by Carrie Etter

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

Whether the fog lowered or rose,   with it came the wolves, their white-and-grey fur merging with the dense air. They came after the bloodletting …

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Bear on the Battlefield

Poem by Katy Giebenhain

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

Sweet spot of the day the last tour bus propels itself through the fresh dusk. Split-rail fences rim the road in waggy stitches. In local news, a bear …

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Proud Flesh

Poem by Ashley-Elizabeth Best

PUBLISHED ON: 26/01/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

I had fallen out of love with everything. It was calming to think of all the ways a person could go, but wasn’t serious enough to pull it off. A routi …

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