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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…
March 24, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
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…
March 10, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
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…
February 3, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
‘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…
January 6, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
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…
December 16, 2016
Poetry
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…
November 29, 2016
Poetry
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…
November 11, 2016
Poetry
New Poems from Zeina Hashem Beck
Photo: ‘Tripoli Clock Tower’ by Natheer Halawani www.natheerhalawani.com ROOM 607 By then the doctors had removed the tubes that came out of your lung; by then your fever had dropped and…
October 28, 2016
Poetry
South West Poetry Tour #6 – David Sergeant & Mike Rose-Steel
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 26, 2016
Diary
South West Poetry Tour #5 – Annabel Banks & Matti Spence
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 24, 2016
Diary
South West Poetry Tour #4 – J.R. Carpenter & Camilla Nelson
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 20, 2016
Diary
South West Poetry Tour #3 – SJ Fowler & John Hall
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 19, 2016
Diary