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
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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)
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Bone white, star bright
Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
You make a mirrorball out of the rain
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Letting the shadow out of the box
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Hooks and Visions: Sylvia Plath and Me
Poet Sarah Corbett takes a break from her role as producer and director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival to talk about what first drew her to Plath's work
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