What the owl said to me
by Annie Fisher — I blink, therefore I am. / The moon and stars despise your crude chronology. / The skylark’s ecstasy is the sparrowhawk’s breakfast. // If you're scared of the dark, don't sleep in the forest.
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A dark shape from the sun
Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Dead Souls by Sam Riviere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)
Ups and Downs
In Conversation: Lorna Dowell talks about her first teachers at school, setting up Poetic Licence, and how creative expression is key to general well-being and mental health
Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water
Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon, 2021)
One year of daft editorial pictures
WTAF has been going on with the monthly editorial photos ...
About the Building
by Paul Stephenson — The entry says it’s homely in style, / double-fronted and two-storied / with gable dormer windows in the roof. / It refers to brick quoins and brick surrounds, / two large chimneys, one either side
The hail clanjamfrie’s singin
Regina Weinert writes in memory of William Bonar (1953-2021)
Photo by Kim Ayres
I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera
Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth
What does Emma Simon say?
I got into poetry at school. I remember one hot sweaty day my English teacher saying that kind of weather always made her think of murder ...
What does Richie McCaffery say?
I took a fairly predictable teenage route into poetry, discovering Dylan Thomas and falling under his spell ...
What does Matthew Paul say?
I had a succession of very engaging English teachers. For 'A' level, our texts included Robert Lowell and Donne, both of whom I really enjoyed ...
What does Mat Riches say?
I got into poetry by accident. I remember writing some sort of rhyming thing around the age of five ...