Road This old invention: immaculate in morning sunshine, relaxing in the heat like a girl who wants to dance although the night has been long. Guided by the central yin, a car reveals children’s faces – morning daisies shut tight against the last of the frost. A second shared with them; fractured understanding grasped … Continue reading Three poems by Jessica Traynor
Author: And Other Poems
Two poems by Richard Skinner
Two poems from the light user scheme the vague notion of authorship Japanese scientists have recently confirmed my appearance, they say that the papaya is not a cousin of passion fruit, but of the cauliflower, that a cow is more akin to whales than camels. As a foundling, I can now choose my … Continue reading Two poems by Richard Skinner
Three poems by Jacqui Rowe
New work from a residency at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham PECULIAR MUSIC 1 Nina Lopez She knows she is a film. Her hair is spun from chintz. She is fading into cushions, grows out of upholstery where someone has split paint like flowers. M Renoir is he still here? Her … Continue reading Three poems by Jacqui Rowe
Two poems by David Kennedy
Two new poems by David Kennedy from a project on Cézanne Cézanne – The Card Players (1892-5, 1894-5) I – (1892-5) Slowed to two frames a second, a present moment where a wonky, red-clay table glows with more life than two men, volumes as much as figures, old pinhead with giant’s knees vs. more … Continue reading Two poems by David Kennedy
A poem by Roy Moller
Ballad of the Cast-Off Cards Binned now, we lie beyond your slumber, beyond the fishbowl prospect afforded by your spy hole. We fell before the shrill hinge and heavy spring were wedged free open on to solemn stairs scaled by the stuffed sacks on scrawny backs, and white hands pushed into your privacy beneath … Continue reading A poem by Roy Moller
Five poems by Jane Weir
On the Recommendation of Ovid we Tried a Weasel It was the first mammal he ever gave me. He must have trapped it late last night when the moon disappeared inside a nightclub of clouds and stars giggling staggered behind. I found it in the morning, slung like an amulet across the lapel of … Continue reading Five poems by Jane Weir
Two poems by Andrew Forster
Power The last time the electricity failed, we watched through the window in settling dusk as vans rumbled into the field next door and workers in yellow tunics gathered by the telegraph pole like pilgrims. Floodlights, like artificial moons, cast the grass in a white sheen. One worker shimmied up, others rapt beneath, mumbling … Continue reading Two poems by Andrew Forster
Poems by Jo Bell
A sequence of seven 14-lined poems by Jo Bell, written during her residency at Royal Derby Hospitals in 2010. Each poem originates in a particular location in the hospital complex. I Waiting They’re behind. This waiting – it’s another day on wipe-clean chairs for me. A bit of peace. I wouldn’t be here … Continue reading Poems by Jo Bell
Three poems by Gillian Prew
Birds/Untitled October/ a thousand gusts unpick the leaves. Bird/and bird moored to the black-knot trees tails like rudders in harsh water/ wings wrapped featherweight sails. Paired/ they wait the length of their bond/they wait for a shift in the cold as day darkens barely into evening. The edge of rain is ahead it appears/it … Continue reading Three poems by Gillian Prew
Three poems by Mark Granier
Keys At 18, I wore a bunch of them –– pendants on a leather thong. I wanted secrets to keep, the jingle, the little teeth turning the pins, old tangible symbols. As if I might learn to belong by playing at being warder to a makeshift life: the front door to my first home, … Continue reading Three poems by Mark Granier
