Beethoven Haus, Bonn His home is as his mother might’ve kept it – tidied up, waiting. House of a thousand notes and sorrows, he’s already left. He’ll not be back from Vienna this time, and she’s long dead. We find it serious – oil portraits, creaking boards, shuttered windows, facsimile scores behind glass, … Continue reading Two Poems by Liz Lefroy
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Two Poems by Purabi Bhattacharya
Then I was not the antagonist in your fiction Pine needles. The hill breeze. Take me home. It is winter and this has been a while. This silly disorder- nostalgia On a plateau purple peppered, mountain harebell stare; I remember brushing with my finger on a canvas as catholic as the … Continue reading Two Poems by Purabi Bhattacharya
Two poems by Adam Warne
Never Force Them to Swim The boy was a rat which is why I loved him, the third of three vermin born to an x-ray technician. Always short of breath, twitching his nose, climbing and chewing on ropes, he worked without success at Boots until he bit the manager and had to move … Continue reading Two poems by Adam Warne
‘Semiotics’ by Kirsten Luckins
Are they sequins, Isadora? Those unfocussed glints, and your head flung back punt-drunk and cushioned on the swell, swell. Your fingers, willow-limp and lax on the spine of your paperback Ways Of Seeing. [Sunlight … Continue reading ‘Semiotics’ by Kirsten Luckins
Two Poems by Laura Scott
To be one of them To be a link in that necklace of sisters, to flit between them and forget sometimes which one I am, the oldest, or the youngest, or the one in between. To slide into their space and find my way into the room they spend so much time in … Continue reading Two Poems by Laura Scott
Two Poems by Christopher Lanyon
hug each other at the end of the day, and at the same time check after 'Like any other girl' by Jenna Clake for aches twists knotted skin the afternoon is long and lonely full of opportunities to hurt in the evening let’s sit out under the last empty planes with a tin … Continue reading Two Poems by Christopher Lanyon
Two Poems by Vicky Morris
Lounge The nurse says they should’ve given me a line-in the first time, straight to my heart. Now the veins in my arm grow hard. FEC chemo is the worst, she says. We’ll sort it for next time. Then you won’t have me here again. She smiles, meaning there’ll be no more need to … Continue reading Two Poems by Vicky Morris
‘Testimony’ by Fiona Larkin
Testimony after Alberto Giacometti stark figurine you are here to unpick with your needle-bright point our distinguishing features the whorl of a curl the curve of a lip mother or teacher or classmate flatten to form bare outline as collars wear thin as beads fall unstrung flesh drops away the wolf called attrition called … Continue reading ‘Testimony’ by Fiona Larkin
from ‘One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets’ by Jacqueline Saphra
XLI 2nd May 'Death Map. Interactive coronavirus map lets you find out number of deaths in your postcode.' The Sun And suddenly it's fear. He wakes me up at odd hours, pulls me out of bed, he works by stealth, he spikes my morning cup with dark. I drink him like a drug, I … Continue reading from ‘One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets’ by Jacqueline Saphra
Two Poems by Penelope Shuttle
by the hoar rock in the drowned wood* there was once a feasting-cup city pearl and aquamarine of its precincts and palaces sea-green peridot of its square miles but no one knows a way back through time to when Lyonesse was fresh from the hands of its makers No one can bear to think … Continue reading Two Poems by Penelope Shuttle
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