Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
A Girls and Other Poems- Anne Bevan
A Girl There was a girl
Who lived in a glass mind
And carried her emotions
From room to room
In a brown suitcase.
Blackbirds pecked at her
Through see-through walls,
Hissing...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Lucy Mackarel
In Memorial I have never been to a funeral,
I have, however mourned a body.
In a room with brown walls and a window to the road.
It...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Bob Beagrie
Chiromancy ‘The great Sage as high as Heaven visited here.’
Wu Cheng'en – Journey to the West, 1592 High staggered moorland crossroads
too few trees, the big wide...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Nadia Wolnisty
Nadia Wolnisty's tribute to the impressionist Kay Sage
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Dana St Mary
the flag keeper he walks slowly to the place
with that solemnity
that cadavers bring, and
leans the heavy ladder
on the mast-like pole. a tilted head and
gooseflesh show
that today...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Marcy Clarke
SUET, SUNFLOWERS AND HAY Winter is at our gate
and a dozen crows, like trespassing bandits,
raid our slumbering garden The sun is a hard shadow bleaching bony...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Deborah Harvey
Understorey Your father in his fawn windcheater
names the song of each bird we hear
points out fox holes and fungi,
pulls to one side an elder branch
explains...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
New Surrealism:Â The new revolution?
We must not hesitate to bewilder sensation’. Andre Breton ‘
If we say, ‘how does one write surrealist poetry,’ we are...
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