Poetry Foucault’s Pendulum by Michael Arthur make deft use of rhythm and rich imagery to bestow a message of hope through constant…
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Poetry In this lavishly beautiful work of nature poetry, Deborah Benson reflects on the ruin of a Threshing Machine and its reclamation by nature….
Poetry Hollow Bell describes a dream or vision lying dead in the desert and watching predatory and growing life spring from one’s own carcass….
Poetry Starting with the destruction of a tree Lucy Wiggins’ poem laments the loss of the natural environment and asks us to imagine a…
Poetry Foucault’s Pendulum by Michael Arthur make deft use of rhythm and rich imagery to bestow a message of hope through constant change. To…
Poetry In a poetic rendering of her native Shetlandic dialect Hannah Nicholson muses on the importance of Brae – a village on the Shetland…
Poetry Hanna Louise’s Love Poem On The Victoria Line is chaotic and tender, depicting London and the ecstatic energy it imbues a relationship with….
Poetry In this imagist imagining of the granite city, Aberdeen Synonyms describes the city through a plethora of different fragmentary aspects. Chunk of gold-granite….
Poetry Toxicity is a railing, howling scream of discomfort at living with the lockdown which we all endured in 2020 as a result of…
Poetry Desert Vulture is a short exploration of outside destruction and internal implosion. It’s macabre symbolism opens up the poem to brilliance. Capra Aegagrus,…
Poetry Jodie Mackay returns to the pages of Leopard Arts with her new offering ‘Siren’, a haunting tale of warning from a poetic old…
Poetry My Brain Is Funny is a frank, yet humourous, poetic look at the reality of life with autism with all of its exhaustion,…
Poetry Turning away from her characteristic use of Shetland dialect, Hannah Nicholson likens the experience of depression to a leech. A popular term for…
Poetry A short poem from Judith Taylor revels in the fleeting moment of personal interactions where rude behaviour turns into a moment of shame….
Poetry Early On A Saturday is a stream of consciousness – drinking in the surroundings of a morning at a cafe and rendering it…
Poetry Emerging once again from his shell Blair Center presents his show stopping ensemble The Snail Trilogy. This favourite of the local spoken word…
Poetry Reflecting on finding the carcass of a rabbit fallen victim to Myxomatosis, Jordan Stead uses classical imagery to ruminate on death. The moths…
Poetry Aberdeen University professor Tom Rist shares this intimate and poignant collection of three poems exploring living with cancer. i. Ward Here with the…
Poetry Gillian Shearer’s ‘ And What Is Love You Ask?’ presents memories of marriage, subverted images of love, to explore transience and existence. Is…
Poetry Mackay’s Grave of the Worms uses mythological imagery and a child’s-eye view to retell a story of past guilt and dead worms. At…
Poetry Hallucinations of horrific abuses of power haunt Ewan Wallace’s Sarin Gas Dreams but his poetic distortions muddy their irreality. I toss and turn…
Poetry Depicting a particularly bleak part of the year and mirroring it to a bleak time in the life of the protagonist, November is…
Poetry Examining the image of her own reflection in glass Sara Young comments on the fragility of her own mental state in a moment…
Poetry By evoking Lillith, the first wife of Adam in Judaic and Babylonian mythology Stead offers an imaginative depiction of this classical figure. Spat…
Poetry This heartfelt tribute presents the death of Chinese factory worker Xu Lizhi as a moment of empathy but also heightens it to martyrdom….
Poetry This maritime poem delves into the love and commitments of a sealskin-bound fisherman, torn between his love of his wife and the sea….
Poetry Anton Truck-Lindahl sends us short poem reflects on one small and seemingly insignificant object embodying the potential of eternity. Swiping and wiping wouldn’t…
Poetry By examining imagery and symbolism from trees, Rebirth is a transformative nature poem describing life’s constantly returning cycle. I stare at her in…
Music Apricity juxtaposes the harsh concrete world of the city with the tranquillity of the garden – so important to many during the months…
Poetry This Pill Is Hard To Swallow plays on the popular phrase poetically transforming it by focusing the transformative nature of hard truths. This…
Poetry In this debut by Freya Ewan, Roe V Wade is a stark look at the reality of reproductive rights and a poignant reminder…
Poetry Reflecting upon a tasty yet unsettling meal, Margiotta depicts a point of moral uncertainty asking, what does it mean to eat an octopus?…
Poetry In Death In August/February , Ewan Wallace is as incredulous as he is amazed by death and those who fight against it in…
Poetry Fin Hall juxtaposes the natural beauty and harmony of the Aberdeenshire landscape with the brutality of modern life, amplifying tragedy. The time between…
Poetry Turning her usually anthropocentric eye towards nature’s glory, Hannah Nicholson renders a calm, dewy morning with bright air and Girse. Hit’s a cöl,…
Poetry Blending emotional experience and political analysis, Or Just Standing? is a howl against racial an economic oppression in modern America. All the truth…
Poetry Jordan Stead uses natural imagery and a Romantic idealism in this poem from our launch to depict a turbulent emotional period in Doe….
Poetry Louisiana-born poet Euan Wallace reflects on the trauma inherited from his grandfather’s experience in war and its influence on him today. I still…
Poetry Macartney’s poem fascinates itself around the violent journey of a snail across foliage and the total power the observer enjoys. Scared static on…
Poetry Deborah Benson returns with wintery poetry that draws inspiration from the work of Peter Brueghel to reflect on themes of grief. …
Poetry Jordan Stead returns to our digital pages with a brand new poem with intimate boundaries and epic proportions. ‘Antigone’ evokes the image of…
Poetry Likening her body to Ivory, and Razors, Sara Young likens fantasies of self-harm to a suicidal striptease blurring the violent and erotic. I…
Poetry Marka Rifat uses a visit to a river as a metaphor to explore anxieties around the climate crisis by musing on the transience…
Poetry Fin Hall constructs the picturesque Buchan village of New Aberdour wreathed in whimsical nostalgia and a love for serenity and surprise. A mere…
Poetry Michael Arthur’s poem renders the emotional space after love as a desolate wasteland littered with lost artefacts, a shadow place. Maps of old…
Poetry RS Kendle poetically examines the figurative and literal landscape of the north of Scotland, tracking a return home along the iconic A96. The…
Poetry This poem from the launch of Leopard Arts is a gorgeous offering from Sara Young. Exploring the power of love through the spoken…
Poetry Once Upon A Time compares the passage of time with the turning of the night sky, the stars showing transience as well as…
Poetry The apocalyptic old testament destruction of the mythical city of Gomorrah becomes a hedonistic mimesis of a sexual encounter in this poem. It…
Poetry Through a broken mirror, the kaleidoscopic representation of the viewer provides the only direct reflection in this poem by Kyle Adam. I can’t…