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THREE POEMS by Michelle Penn
April 7, 2021
Poetry: birds haunt the train tracks / and the doors beyond doors
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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.
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
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
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.
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?
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 …
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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.
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.
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 about your own imagination required an alarm system with a direct line to the police. The peach you’re eating is so sweet, no wonder it’s
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 about creativity, writing, editing, and people that are difficult to work with…
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.