Friday Poems
Tammy Wynette
by Dane Holt — The only records found in my grandmother’s attic / were by scorned women for scorned women / written by men ...
After What You Have Been Through
by Lex Runciman — If you have roses, it would be good / to water them now, though it be late, late / September ...
Morphine Driver
by Nia Broomhall — We could hear it was working from the soft shunt of fluid / through the tube and the reassuring whisper // she’s fine ...
Three poems by Nia Broomhall
Three poems by Nia Broomhall Nia Broomhall’s three poems each address the illness or passing of a loved person. 'Morphine
Three poems by Dane Holt
Three poems by Dane Holt In ’Tammy Wynette’ Dane Holt uses the neat trick of making one word stand in for another. The
Three poems by Lex Runciman
Three poems by Lex Runciman Each of Lex Runciman’s poems feels like a gift. His first, ’After What You Have
Three Poems by John Greening
Three poems by John Greening Two of Greening’s poems here are ekphrastic – they approach an existing work of art.
Three poems by Maureen Jivani
Three poems by Maureen Jivani We chose Maureen Jivani to be our featured poet for October 2023. When we read
Four poems by Daniel Brown
Four poems by Daniel Brown We chose Daniel Brown to be our featured poet for September 2023. When we read
The Wheel
by Kathryn Bevis — It begins like this: in January a single stitch / slips from her needles. By Candlemas, / her paintings, shelves of knick-knacks start / to stray
Snowday
by Ian Harker — The cars are falling with long sighs / down Monk Bridge Road, their tanks empty / and the beck grinding to a halt
The Climbing Frame
by Sarah Corbett — Square of hot concrete and new plimsolls / pulled on, elastic at the front, the soft/snap / over my heels & I leap up