Uncategorized

Crossing the Line: Walking in the Cheviots with Dante

Stewart Sanderson considers the notion of 'crossing the line' in poetry while walking his beloved Cheviot hills

Of difference, and of faith and its loss

Maggie Mackay reviews Hymnal by Julia Bell (Parthian, 2023)

by Colm Scully — These days I remember things that never happened; / how the world was won / by us, through our evolution, / winning each fitness battle that we fought. // How we changed just the right amount / at just the right time

The Break

by Tim Goldstone — You see them from the village / only as tiny silhouetted off grid figures / high on the exposed ridge / bending straightening bending / all day long / patching holes / in crumbling dry stone walls, / hot coffee-splutters