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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)
Evolution
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
Haunted, haunting, cursed and cursing
Bruno Cooke reviews Farewell Tour by Stefan Mohamed (Verve, 2022)
The Friday Poem Christmas Quiz
Try your hand at the Friday Poem 2022 Christmas Quiz
Christmas Quiz Answers
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