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New Poems from Marc Woodward
Calf Eye The clump of gawkers stood around to watch a digger lift the dead calf from the beach. A Devon Red, it’s beaten hide sand-caked, twisted legs flung out,…
Fell Year by Kelly Sullivan
Fell Year 1. As if there was snow. Petals across the paths, knee deep of them, the flowers battered in a gale and lightning raked across the patch of…
New poems from Richard Skelton
Richard Skelton is an artist, composer and publisher. He has written over seven books and thirty albums of music. Together with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson, he runs Corbel Stone Press. The…
New Poems from Matt Howard
Reed sweet-grass A quarter acre of it, mowed down the low meadow for the clearing. Frost and stubble among the rides. Dominant and too coarse to bale, a day’s work, with…
‘Edge States’ from Philip Gross
Edge States Mänttä /Jyväskylä, Finland, October 1. Sunlight, late in the year, the edge of winter. Light like stainless steel. Just out of hearing, the ring of its thin blades…
The Song of Place by Tim Dee
It stands to reason, but it is still striking for us rootless and shifting human types to learn that it is possible to see, and so believe, that the life living in…
Yggdrasil in Shetland, by Jen Hadfield
For National Tree Week, here is Jen Hadfield on the trees of Shetland. This piece is an extract from Arboreal, a new woodland anthology published by Little Toller Books. My aunt owns…
New Poems by Rebecca Hurst
Familiar She has some small skill with these things making balm, potions, cooking almost— a dream of cooking. As when we were children making mud pies and jelly from yew…
New Poems from Anna Cathenka
composition by [thawing] field this poem has a rime on it jutting ice crystals covering space like a white mould a lichen sonnet the birds in this poem describe patterns …
Two Marine Poems by Isabel Galleymore
The Evening Shift 1. matronly strawberry sea anemone and this one some 50’s pin-up 2. waiter coming in on the evening shift the snails in their ancient restaurant booths …
‘The Tin Lodes’ – A New Poetry Sequence by Andy Brown
The following sequence of sonnets is part of a collaborative book project between myself and the poet Marc Woodward. We live on opposite sides of the Teign river estuary, with Dartmoor to…
New Poems from Penelope Shuttle
St Clether August The Well Sheep-warm day, pilgrim rain rolling up the valley, half-listening to the quiet river skimming the long mist-smitten fold of the Inny Vale,…