Category: POETRY NEWS

“a leafy bloom’s pledge“ Firm will enters through hidden morphemes, a vow carried without leaf or bloom. Resolve bends but does not shatter, its path refusing the easy blossom….

After you were gone My heart fell apart A jigsaw without structure A mess of lonely parts I think you took me with you My breath, my life, my…

Wirral Poet Barry Woods has launched his latest punk-inspired collection at an event inside Liverpool’s Wall of Fame bar, once home to the old Probe Records shop, a place…

Dorothy flipped through the pages of the book, not reading, not absorbing—just moving, as if the motion itself could sort the tangled threads of her mind. She sat by…

A tiny seed, a hopeful start, The gardener came, with gentle heart. He tucked it in the earth so deep, While I, a little one, did peep. A bottle palm,…

Poem 199 of 230: BEDE’S WORLD – WINTER 2002/3 During Advent, I returned to Bede’s World, Where I, already read, was further schooled, Via walks through the museum, the farm,…

Mantford Mountfichet, the world’s worst astronaut, sat on a beam of light. He made a grab for it, but it slipped from his grasp, so he returned to his home…