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New Poems from Robert Peake and Jack Thacker
Collective A chastity of hawthorn, a smirch of blackberries, a wince of stinging nettle. Adam named the beasts, but the tribes of wildflower name themselves: You say “Grove of beeches.” They say,…
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New Poems from Sally Flint
Dare The kingfishers appeared more like darting fish; their wings skimmed the dappled water, assured they knew the measure of every bend along their flight. We were surprised by their…
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What Can Folk Horror Tell Us About Our Landscape? – Adam Scovell
Folk Horror is a term that has become synonymous with a wide variety of culture in recent years. From film and television to literature and music, the broadness of the description belies…
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Some Thoughts on Poetry and Fracking by Hugh Dunkerley
In 2014 I was asked to give a poetry reading at the anti-fracking camp in Balcombe, West Sussex. Thinking about what to read brought into focus issues which, as a poet and…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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