I with my mother became we
Maggie Mackay reviews Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter (Seren, 2024)
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Beige
by Mark Fiddes — Some cities are beige in unexpected ways. / Hotel showers spit grit and lizards. / In tailored ecru and fawn, the policemen / vogue under flyovers ...
The strong verbs
Helena Nelson reviews Camera Obscura by Philip Rush (Garlic Press, 2023)
Watch how we glow
Karen Smith reviews Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim by Ness Owen (Parthian, 2023)
A Portrait of my Father in the Public Bar of the Royal Arms
by David Lukens — Thin but not gaunt – that came later when the cancer did its stuff. / Just now he's on top of his game. The face ...
That day when we can watch it fall
Steven Lovatt reviews Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle by Katy Evans-Bush (CB Editions, 2024)
Reminiscing and joking and putting the world to rights
Bruno Cooke talks to Georgie Jones, the poet who found success via Instagram and TikTok
Dad’s 75th birthday party after the heart attack
by Rachel Burns — and my brother in the kitchen / arguing with dad over who’s making the brew / and how to work the hob to reheat stew ...
Dunna wittle, it’ll be reet
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ostriches: Ten Poems about My Dad by Jeanette Burton (Candlestick Press, 2024)
In the ‘quiet coach’
Annie Fisher reviews Surprising the Misses McRuvie by Eleanor Livingstone (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)
Derek’s Thoughts on Bodies in Motion
by Jonathan Humble — Sir Isaac Newton delivered an apple pie the other day. / Wanted to give it to my dog Derek / as a token of thanks ...
There now
D. A. Prince reviews This is You, Dear Stranger by Paula Jennings (Red Squirrel Press, 2024)