by Danielle | Apr 23, 2023 | Guest Poems
Once Beloved You hadn’t been diagnosed yet; days you couldn’t get out of bed. Took a semester off to transition from class three rapids to chronically ill. You’d make a meal in the back kitchen, row of single panes overlooking a raggedy tenant’s garden. Table pushed...
by Danielle | Apr 23, 2023 | Guest Poems
Mars Low in the southern sky, a coppery glint, Mars, planet of war. Across that distance a memory sifts in, of the Juan de Fuca Strait on a still evening, when an aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, half a mile long, slate-grey, was sent by the Empire to demonstrate...
by Danielle | Apr 16, 2023 | News
Winchester Poetry Festival is calling on poets from around the world to submit their best, unpublished work to win £1000. The 2023 Winchester Poetry Prize judge, is multi-award winning poet and author, Zaffar Kunial. The competition closes 31 July 2023. Further...
by Danielle | Apr 16, 2023 | News
Dinah Livingstone, poet, translator, editor of Katabasis Books and of Sofia, is giving a poetry reading at Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX, UK on Sunday May 14th. As usual, poets from the floor are welcome. Like many other venues Torriano...
by Danielle | Apr 16, 2023 | Guest Poems
Streetwise The pretty street is lined with gas lights convincing in their Victorian guise throwing down a mantle of respectability. Nothing to see in the shadows you know and that thing you noticed that slithered away wasn’t there. You can trust me. Look how the...
