We walked back and forth from the library, preparing for some high leap: sunlight catching the tallest spume of the shopping centre fountain. Something we owe to the past made our elders stand, kneel and then sit in buildings warmed by a hope for something better. That monogrammed leather trunk we use to … Continue reading ‘February’ by Tim Dooley
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‘Six Perspectives on Lilian Kjærulff’ by Lisa Kelly
Six Perspectives on Lilian Kjærulff 2 April 1934 - 17 July 2010 i second daughter from second marriage I know why you married so young. You curtsied to him, offered your gloved hand with your girlish good manners, straight off the Esbjerg boat. Your signature move: that dip. You were a tall girl; your … Continue reading ‘Six Perspectives on Lilian Kjærulff’ by Lisa Kelly
‘Ship-breaking’ by Hannah Lowe
Ship-breaking These folks were not the victims of migration…these folks mean to survive – Stuart Hall I watch old films of ship yards on the Clyde: cranes ripping ships apart, their metal hides peeled back by men in goggles wielding fire. The shock of innards: girders, joists and wires, a rusted funnel toppling in slow … Continue reading ‘Ship-breaking’ by Hannah Lowe
Two poems by Peter Daniels
Regulars Tonight we go through to the small back room hung with wrestling posters, plastic vegetables and salami. It's cosy here, warm at least, away from the street. Nearer the kitchen, source of heat, food and argument; nearer the toilets. Catch a lime-scented disinfectant that sanctifies the smell of drains. Up there on a ceiling … Continue reading Two poems by Peter Daniels
Two poems by Emily Blewitt
This Is Not a Rescue I want to tell you it will not be as you expect. For years you have hammered in stakes, handed men the rope and said consume me with fire. Most have run – one does not burn a witch lightly. This one is water. He’ll unbind you, take … Continue reading Two poems by Emily Blewitt
Two poems by Aki Schilz
The Fall I have clasped your edges so hard they leave grooves in my palms, deep as the grooves of horse-reins beneath the bridges on towpaths wasted with bracken and buddleia. These, and mine, cut across lifelines: a geometric interruption. * I cannot document dropping you on a sunlit day, startled by the … Continue reading Two poems by Aki Schilz
‘Five Unusual Things’ by Kathy Pimlott
You open the quarter-lights, get out of the car. ‘Five minutes’ you say ‘and while I’m gone, look for five unusual things’. And I’m alone on a back street of workshops and offices. No-one appears. There are no balloons, no burglaries. Nothing disturbs the street. Two thirds up the warehouse wall the brick … Continue reading ‘Five Unusual Things’ by Kathy Pimlott
‘Stand in the Light’ by Elizabeth Rimmer
Stand in the Light Stand in the light. Allow the wild things to creep out of the shadows. Welcome them all, the wet bedraggled things, the ones all spit and claws, the one who weeps and hangs its head, the one who stares, and says ‘Make me.’ Stand in the light. They are yours, washed … Continue reading ‘Stand in the Light’ by Elizabeth Rimmer
Two poems by Jane Clarke
The Finest Specimen When I was a child my father wrote the twelve fair days of Roscommon on the back of a Players pack and taught me to recite them as farmers used to do. He showed me where the blacksmith had inscribed 1865 on a gate - the year Yeats was born, he’d say. … Continue reading Two poems by Jane Clarke
‘Infinity of Red’ by Shanta Acharya
Infinity of Red Lips blushing cheeks colour of magic hennaed hands and feet desire blazing like autumnal leaves Fields of poppies bouquet of roses flowers of the gulmohur tree flame of the forest red hibiscus fuchsia roses … Continue reading ‘Infinity of Red’ by Shanta Acharya
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