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 take then you do it so easily so take again it is yours to have an opening it gleams in your mind like fresh cut grass from the meadow of your …
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. You take her word: yes but you hide the sealskin. Do you think the sea is so strong in her veins you can’t believe her? …
Poetry In this lavishly beautiful work of nature poetry, Deborah Benson reflects on the ruin of a Threshing Machine and its reclamation by nature. Your tenacious nameplate continues to resist dissolution, in the gentle grass of this little broom filled valley on Strathfinella Hill. Still holding together your bleached boards though they are splitting. You …
Poetry In this debut by Freya Ewan, Roe V Wade is a stark look at the reality of reproductive rights and a poignant reminder of their importance. When i was young i used to dream of the names i would give to my twins that i would have; Luna and Saul, my little sun and …
Poetry Early On A Saturday is a stream of consciousness – drinking in the surroundings of a morning at a cafe and rendering it as pure experience. Sitting in a cafe, Just opposite the maternity wing of the hospital, 40 minutes early for my appointment Not at the maternity obviously But at a bit I’ve …
Poetry My Brain Is Funny is a frank, yet humourous, poetic look at the reality of life with autism with all of its exhaustion, difficulties, and fun My brain is funny, it’s not like othersNot like my brothers’ not like my mother’sMy brain is funny, perhaps it’s all wrongI’ll maybe think about it, over my …
Poetry Once Upon A Time compares the passage of time with the turning of the night sky, the stars showing transience as well as permanence. I used to watch with you And now the galaxy seems too big To contain those times when we walked hand in hand How can distance be measured By the …
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. we are tiny cells in the bloodstream of london coursing through the blue line headed straight for its glorious heart. the train churns through darkness, coughs us up in the blackened …
Poetry A short poem from Judith Taylor revels in the fleeting moment of personal interactions where rude behaviour turns into a moment of shame. Blink and you’ll miss it: that fleeting moment of regret, when it dawns on Schrodinger’s Asshole that no-one’s laughing and they’re going to have to work a little on …
Poetry Gillian Shearer’s ‘ And What Is Love You Ask?’ presents memories of marriage, subverted images of love, to explore transience and existence. Is it the Happy Meal and the co-op deal the drive-by snack, the two-for-one flowers he bought from the garage lot, the cheap card with the cheesy rhyme the coffee cup he …
