they removed the hollyfilled the trailer and away no more time nor spacebeing late afternoon already as we watched the damson leanedover no holly branch to support no more leaned down over the roofdown over the lane difficultwe thought the tree man by then at hospitalhaving his knees scrapedthe ligaments you knowfrom rugby then convalescenceafter […]
.mind set. — sonja benskin mesher
Month: July 2021
Federico García Lorca: New York (Office and Denunciation) — Vox Populi
I know there are mountains and eyeglasses And wisdom. But I didn’t come to see the sky. I’m here to see the clouded blood, the blood that sweeps machines over waterfalls and the soul toward the cobra’s tongue.
Federico García Lorca: New York (Office and Denunciation) — Vox Populi
A moment of summer — Jane Dougherty Writes
That moment of utter calm,golden as buttercup morningsand pollen-dropping dusk, when summer settles,a hand, a face in the blue, and each tiny insect soundin the brittle-stalked hay, new-mown,the tireless chiff chaff of the chiff chaff,sudden flash of swallows, is a stroke of genius,a chord that balances light, life and peacein the slow opening and closingof […]
A moment of summer — Jane Dougherty Writes
Indie Poets, Vintage books from other bookshops, and Summer Favorites! — the pretty poems
Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the start off to the weekend. I finished making a youtube video! I’m still learning how to do basic editing and feeling comfortable putting myself out there again, but I don’t want to be shy any more putting my face to my brand. In case you’re new here, […]
Indie Poets, Vintage books from other bookshops, and Summer Favorites! — the pretty poems
Drop in by Kitty Donnelly — Nigel Kent – Poet
Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Kitty Donnelly, prize-winning author of The Impact of Limited Time, to reflect upon a poem from her collection. Thank you for letting me drop in to share one of my poems from The Impact of Limited Time. The collection was written over many years. When I found out […]
Drop in by Kitty Donnelly — Nigel Kent – Poet
July Update — Josephine Corcoran
I have two new poems coming out in The North magazine, should be very soon. In the same issue, I’ve reviewed poetry collections by Maria Taylor, Katherine Stansfield and Jackie Wills. I’ve also had an acceptance for a poem in 14 magazine which will be published later this year. Many rejections which I won’t list […]
July Update — Josephine Corcoran
Essential Mourning: David Hackbridge-Johnson on W.N. Herbert’s ‘The Wreck of the Fathership’ — The High Window
Born in Dundee in 1961, W.N. Herbert was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. His doctorate on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid was published as To Circumjack MacDiarmid (1992). He returned to Scotland from Oxford in 1993, taking writer-in-residence posts in Dumfries and Galloway, and then in Moray, before becoming Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Newcastle […]
Essential Mourning: David Hackbridge-Johnson on W.N. Herbert’s ‘The Wreck of the Fathership’ — The High Window
Jack the Stripper by Paul Sutton (Knives Forks and Spoons Press)
Paul Sutton, perhaps somewhat of a cult figure in contemporary poetry, is approaching his sixties. His first collectionBroadsheet Asphyxiawas published eighteen years ago around the time he abandoned working in contract negotiations for offshore gas fields. Since then he has published six collections and a plethora of pamphlets, while teaching English in secondary schools, a job he finds creatively stimulating:
the joys, rages and stresses are exactly the spurs needed for writing. And the insight gained is revealing; of how dull and pointless most ‘mainstream’ poetry seems, to those who don’t have to feign interest.[1]
Sutton is no doubt a little proud of his outsider status, relishing opportunities to decry political and poetical conformism in what he conceives as the ‘mainstream’. His favourite subjects for poems are “decay, violence, crime, gentrification, authenticity, serial killers, humiliation…[2]” so it seems a natural move for his latest offering…
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Delighted to have one of my insect sonnets that first appeared on Fevers of the Mind featured on the Open Arts Forum front page. Thankyou to Jay and the other editors.
#DisabilityPrideMonth. July 2021. Anybody written poems that challenge systemic ableism and discrimination that they have encountered. Contact me, and I will feature your work on this blog post all month.
-Su Zi (originally published in New American Writing 16)
-Karl Knights (who says “
on the topic of ableism and so on, I got genuine hate mail after publishing this poem in the last issue of The Dark Horse. People were especially infuriated by that last stanza. I didn’t know poetry could still produce hate mail.
The Wombwell Rainbow 