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WE RISE LIKE SMOKE ∆Poems∆Psalms∆Incantations∆ — R.M. ENGELHARDT

We are delighted to be able to announce that we will be holding the Tears in the Fence Festival Digging Deeper: Roots and Remains on 2nd to 5th September 2021 via Zoom and at the Stourpaine Village Hall, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8TA. Amongst our featured readers and speakers will be Sascha Akhtar, Rae Armantrout, Elisabeth Bletsoe, […]

2021 Tears in the Fence Festival — Tears in the Fence

This Kilt of Many Colours is David Bleiman’s first poetry pamphlet, out now from Dempsey & Windle. 50 pages, £8 “Reading David’s poemario transported me to dusty village squares, faint echoes of joyful gatherings still lingering around the tables outside the bars, which had in turn borne witness to violent events that shaped the identity of the […]

This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman — The Poetry Shed

Phillis Wheatley, the first black American to publish a book of poetry, had a childhood as the worst of nightmares. She was taken by force and sold into slavery as a very young child, transported to Boston, America. But her captors saw something in young Phillis, a raw talent that they were keen to nurture, […]

The Rhythm of Africa: Phillis Wheatley — Hark Around the Greats

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Rendevous — Miriam’s Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond

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

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

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

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

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