by Danielle | May 25, 2026 | Guest Poems
Losing a Language Death-rattleon the pebbles. This is a tide that won’t return. The waves’ eloquencebreaking, leaving onlya scattering of shallow poolsthat shrink towards oblivion. Take this drypebble in your hand.Remember how the lips of the seacould make it...
by Danielle | Apr 19, 2026 | News
We are sad to share that Acumen has experienced major disruption following a Thames Water trunk main burst in London; Thames Water has accepted responsibility. The incident caused severe flooding in the local area – with water levels exceeding a foot in places (see...
by Danielle | Mar 1, 2026 | Guest Poems
Fact or Fiction Mornings, I scroll through the news on my phone;I like to know the world still exists before leavingthe house. Though today, I don’t want to readabout how Europe is on fire and the ice capsare melting, I just don’t have capacity anymore.Instead I shall...
by Danielle | Mar 1, 2026 | Guest Poems
Charlie Charlie was huge – ‘last time I saw a spider as big as that’a man I loved had told me once ‘I tried to bash it with my shoeand it took it off me and hit me back…’ She was blackest black – glossy, plum of a body,short stout legs at the ready, eyes peeled better...
by Danielle | Feb 22, 2026 | Guest Poems
The Dead They buried him in a shoeboxamongst the terraced stones,packed in tight as teeth. God help the hand that puts me there.Don’t sandblast my nameon a bookmarked bible slab.Don’t trap me in an eight by six,gawked at by the passing busas next door’s dog lifts its...
