HOLDING STILL You imagine me standing at the windowwatching the fireworks above the harbourYou imagine me choking back the tears and the cocaineheartrate uncommonly highspirits expectedly lowYou imagine me burning your lettersand…
REVIEW: Release the Sausages! edited by Andy Croft (Culture Matters) – Neil Fulwood
There is a technique in poetry, borrowed from Apophatic Theology, called the via negativa, whereby attention is drawn to the subject by dint of its absence. This new anthology, subtitled Poems for…
Tuesday Shannon – Three Poems
On Belper Bridge At the plunge three blackened alder snagsreach for this final January morning. Unwavering against the crushing flow, waterfroths at each darkened trunk. A magpie circles, swoops,settles on a branch….
The Greenwash Recycle – Shaun Belcher
THE GREENWASH RECYCLE Starts in a marketing agency hand-out around the milleniumSocial demarcation and quantifying statistics showed newer markets More social class segmentation and new science of social media metricsIdentified new opportunities…
Martin Figura & Helen Ivory – HUM
Martin Figura and Helen Ivory .
Commissioned for a performance at The National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, Norwich as part of the European Poetry Festival
Martin Figura – Two Poems
Martin Figura – Foundling – A Poem
REVIEW: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth, trans. George Szirtes (Bloodaxe) – Neil Fulwood
REVIEW: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth, trans. George Szirtes (Bloodaxe)
A SUMMER CASE OF CULTURAL IRRELEVANCE : THE TLS – Nick Ingram
A SUMMER CASE OF CULTURAL IRRELEVANCE – The Tls – Nick Ingram
Neil Fulwood: Fuck Kier Starmer – A Poem
(in solidarity with Kneecap) Because it can’t be said enoughat Glasto or down the pubor queuing for the till or for a bus or in function rooms or waiting roomsor during the…
Andrew Taylor – Four Poems
Small Glass Pouring Light Shake the frost freewide river view to shoreroad noise anticipationof the carrier’s cart loadedwith news & print Bright star above the baybeautiful & simpleendlessly revealing Arctic Drone Winter…
GRETA THUNBERG: A poem by Anthony Owen
TWTWTW : Topical Poems classed as That Was The Week That Was GRETA THUNBERG If only you were a rock starshouting free PalestineCrowd-surfing a flotilla of handsbut you never showed us your…
DEFENCE: Poem by Neil Fulwood
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Writing Home: Arnold Bennett, Stoke and Me – Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor “No-one ever comes to Stoke, no-one ever leaves Stoke, except for Arnold Bennett, and even he had to write about it”: when I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent (aka the…
Maria Taylor – Three Poems
My Parents’ Wedding, July 1975 A rushed wedding, a year after the fighting.Newlywed Anna unable to finish her breakfastat the hotel. Dimitri insists she drinks upher scalding tea or they’ll miss the…
Dennis O’Donnell: Three Poems
TWO CLOCKS TICKING In the house in Shotts, where my grandfather was born,the front room was stifled with velvet drapesand thick brocade table-cloths.There were photographs of whey-faced ghosts,anti-macassars, spotted mirrors,aspidistras, vases, knick-knacks….
Martin Hayes – Three Poems
the importance of a Marcus a metaphor in support of Kneecap and Spartacus – that maybe it’s the Farmer who’s the instigator of the problem – not all of us animals Marcus…
Dead Centre – Poem by Shaun Belcher
Shaun Belcher DEAD CENTRE If England was a target and you were looking at cross hairsIn the centre of the cross hairs would probably be DidcotThe most normal town in England according…
Island of Strangers – Poem Neil Fulwood
Neil Fulwood waxes topical… Talk to her: the woman who applies the gauzeand talks you through the aftercare. Talk to him: the man selling newspapersfrom the old-fashioned stall. The one whose identity’s…
David Graeber (1961-2020) – Andy Hedgecock
Andy Hedgecock writes an appreciation of the works of David Graeber (1961-2020). A dissident writer who in Utopia of Rules tackles the factors that lead us to create and sustain rule-based systems and – in turn – considers the tendency of those systems to determine the way we use our tools and technologies.
The hedgehog and the goose – Shaun Belcher
ECOLOGICAL THEMES IN THE POETRY OF ALASDAIR MACLEAN AND WILLIAM NEILL. “At heart no flyer, I bristle timidly when touched. When the ice comes I retreat beneath it. I choose at last…