A Single Note by Fabrice Poussin
June 21, 2024
(A poem by Fabrice Poussin)
He reached into the darkness
for the midnight drink
to find the glass
empty.
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The Intentionality Behind the Work: An Interview with Christopher Paolini
June 12, 2024
Eragon, the first book in the Inheritance Cycle, which established the World of Eragon as we know it now, holds a special place in my heart and my bookshelf. It is the second book I’d ever read in its entirety and where my love for books and stories started. I was around 7-years-old and it left a mark. Fantasy remains my preferred genre of exploration and I’m forever grateful to Christopher Paolini for penning the entire Eragon series. … Continue reading →
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The Fall Of Troy by William Doreski
June 2, 2024
(A poem by William Doreski)
A false dawn awakens us.
The right time, when the cloud-facts
explain us to each other
and absorb the spilled light.
Little Thieves by Susan Gordon Byron
June 1, 2024
(A poem by Susan Gordon Byron)
Dali’s clocks were sincere. They slipped over things, slid past and took nothing with them.
They changed. Or I changed them.
Pickpockets.
Breaking Kayfabe: An Interview with Wes Brown
March 21, 2024
It takes awareness, intelligence and creativity to compete professionally at sport. Its exponents have to process multiple sources of ever-changing information in real-time and react accordingly, trusting their body to back their decisions. It’s arguable sportspeople are not given enough credit for how good they have to be to compete at the highest level; they are judged on post-match interviews and PR-filtered press conferences, and only their counterparts and opponents truly know what it takes to survive and thrive in any given sporting arena.… Continue reading →
I Have Nothing New To Say by Sinéad MacInnes
February 14, 2024
On your whistle-stop tour of the Highlands
and Islands our whispers are said
to be heard by native ears
O Dhia
dè rinn iad?
Oh God
what have they done?
‘A defining message of education and acceptance’ : Dale Booton in conversation with Matt Bates on his debut poetry pamphlet, Walking Contagions.
July 31, 2023
“Obviously, a huge part of recent history has been the AIDS epidemic. It has been a medical, emotional, social, economic, and political topic for so many including those we have lost, and those living with HIV/AIDS who are still stigmatised today.”… Continue reading →
Neptune’s Projects: An Interview with Rishi Dastidar
May 16, 2023
“is there something in adopting the voice of a god, but giving him very human qualities and frailties? It turned out that adopting a persona that revolved at once about both being powerful and powerless was a great parallel for exploring subjects like climate change.”… Continue reading →
Five Poems from Speculum, by Hannah Copley
April 27, 2023
They were stones in a champagne flute,
I was always bound to smash.
But they were there for a while,
hanging on, two faceless punters waiting
for the gag, and then it all slipped out
of me as easily as a giggle. Once is a mistake.
Twice is careless. By the end of it
you could hear a pin drop in my heart.… Continue reading →
Poem and Interview: Scarlett Sabet
January 17, 2023
“What is happening in Iran is heart-breaking, and this poem is testament to that, it is also paying homage to my Father and my Persian heritage, of which I’m so proud.”… Continue reading →
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After the Fall of a Pear Tree Overladen with Fruit by Mark Czanik
June 22, 2022
A poem by Mark Czanik
Christmas Eve in Paris by Mary Mulholland
December 15, 2021
Poetry: “unsure about her arrangement: I have /
never seen him in a suit in bed. Thinner, /
longer, he looks so serious with his halo…”
Embankment Gardens by Mary Cunningham
December 8, 2021
Poetry: “His shirt side-pulled, her rosy palm creams
whipped egg-white and eggplant flesh…”
The Waters of the Zambezi by Graham Clifford
December 1, 2021
Poetry: “In the basement we found his tools for separating Siamese Twins…”
6am by Nicholas McGaughey
November 17, 2021
Poetry: “She studied the braille / of his back in the / grey before morning…”
My people by Mark Chamberlain
November 3, 2021
Poetry: “My people are people who still smoke cigarettes in bed…”
Your heart is very open by Sophia Nicholson
October 27, 2021
Poetry: “i love to see you. i want to see you. Sorry, i don’t watch 18 movies. i don’t want that kind of imagery going into my consciousness. ”
this language is / nothing by Mark Chamberlain
October 20, 2021
Poetry: “nothing is where it’s at / hurry-up i said to the delivery guy / who said urry-up nuffin / & it’s been mine ever since”
The Long Weekend and other poems by Fran Lock
October 13, 2021
Poetry: “in the dream i swallow the bedclothes, drawing them into me like a reverse spirit medium…”
POEM OF THE MONTH – RASH by Tamsin Hopkins
July 21, 2021
Poetry: You have a rash on your back. /
I think I’m supposed to tell you, / but while you’re asleep I take a picture of your skin
ANDY by Ogu Nnachi
July 14, 2021
Poetry: Andy scoots past Woolworths and The Amhurst/ dazzles grey building blocks / roller skates tops / of brown brick walls…
WOMAN by Anastasia Velounias
June 23, 2021
Poetry: This country breeds men as dogs, /
Barking and barking, / Waiting for their next attack…
THE CORONA PRINCE By Daniel Hinds
June 16, 2021
Poetry: By now, you must have heard his legends. / You abide in his empire. / In the kingdom of the rising star / He rose from a small bowl of hot bat soup…
A LITTLE PERSONAL ETERNITY By Sarah Barr
June 9, 2021
Poetry: The house dreams of white doves on its roof, / remembers a time of coal fires in hearths…
HOW TO FEEL A SENSE OF RELIEF AND/OR JOY… By George Parker
May 26, 2021
Poetry: Let a house plant with little leaves dehydrate…
THE GREEN DEVIL: three carbon-neutral poems by Noah Birksted-Breen
May 19, 2021
Poetry: I always like to do what I cannot do…
FISSURE by Val Whitlock
May 12, 2021
Poetry: If you could slit the black, sucked-in skin, / you’d find her there, alone in a chasmic closet.
POEM OF THE MONTH: BOY IN VARIOUS POSES by Lewis Buxton
April 28, 2021
Poetry: A Boy Runs / out of his lungs like they are a coat held by a parent at a school gate…
A WEEK IN A DAY by Anna Kirwin
April 21, 2021
Poetry: Promise explodes from her gossamer wings as she crosses the threshold…
THREE POEMS by Michelle Penn
April 7, 2021
Poetry: birds haunt the train tracks / and the doors beyond doors
POEM OF THE MONTH: FLIGHT OF THE DANDELION by Meng Qiu
March 24, 2021
Poetry: Feathers dropped by angel wings / light and soft as in your dreams
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A NATIVE BIRD by Samuel Coe
March 17, 2021
Poetry: Is there such a thing as a native bird? /
Those original fair weather friends of / Early morning song, emigrants of winter…
MI O VUKU (A VUK NA VRATA) by Megan Pattie
March 10, 2021
Poetry: The house is quiet. / I admire my sharp nails. / I have been invoking wolves.
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CUPID’S CHAPTER by Lucy Cundill
March 3, 2021
Poetry:
hello, my name is cupid and i eat
the heartache — out of people for a living
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LOSING MY GRIP by clare e. potter
February 24, 2021
Poetry: Lately I’ve let my hands go weak, I’m not responding / to emails… Continue reading →
FLIGHT RISK by Robert Sheppard
February 17, 2021
Poetry: i text you about all my meals so you know what’s inside of me when it’s not you.… Continue reading →
but there are fossils in language too by Kayleigh Cassidy
February 10, 2021
Poetry: when we talk about / ourselves post breakup / why do we preserve / our
exceptionalism?
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Bethena (plus one more) by Hannah Lowe
February 3, 2021
Poetry: … She’d play Scott Joplin’s waltz, ‘Bethena’, its title like her name, so I thought the song was hers …… Continue reading →
POEM OF THE MONTH: Stomach (plus two more) by Elenia Graf
January 27, 2021
Poetry: i text you about all my meals so you know what’s inside of me when it’s not you.… Continue reading →
Boiled Egg (plus two more) by Anisha Jackson
January 13, 2021
Poetry: “Boiled eggs taste better at sea,” she claimed. We dedicated our morning to untangling rods and replacing hooks.… Continue reading →
Postcard Cantos from Our First Days of Self-Isolation by Sarah Stretton and Gael Bell
September 11, 2020
Short Fiction by Sarah Stretton and Gael Bell
Poetry by Anthony Caleshu
October 10, 2018
I AM THIRSTY and because I am thirsty I need to drink before I can continue blowing your mind. The knowledge you once had
Consequences of Not Knowing My Father Tongue by Sarala Estruch
April 10, 2018
Poetry by Sarala Estruch
Sian Hughes talks to Mslexia
January 5, 2018
Sian Hughes spoke to: Editorial Director, Debbie Taylor; Assistant Editor, Francoise Harvey; and Advertising & Digital Marketing Associate, Laura Steven – to hear their thoughts
Sorrows of the Sun by Sogol Sur
July 19, 2017
Sogol Sur talks to Aisha Phoenix about her poetry collection Sorrows of the Sun.
Kavita A. Jindal
November 17, 2015
‘Katra’ – a poem by Kavita A. Jindal, written in reaction to an apparent ‘honour killing’ of two teenaged girls in India.
Cathy Galvin Poetry
October 27, 2014
Two poems by Cathy Galvin including the title poem from her collection Black and Blue: A Sequence of Sonnets, published by Melos Press last month.
Tamar Yoseloff Poetry
May 12, 2014
Three poems by Tamar Yoseloff including new work commissioned for the recent Sensing Spaces exhibition at the Royal Academy.
Aoife Mannix Poetry
January 27, 2014
Two poems from Aoife Mannix’s latest collection, Cocktails from the Ceiling, published by The Tall Lighthouse.