LATEST IN POETRY
tide by Sadie Maskery
What is left, when life goes out to sea.
The Berry Pickers by Moni Brar
Foil-wrapped roti and lidless ice cream pails mark life in the raspberry field.
How New York’s Butcher Girls Run their Meat Omakase Subscription Service by Cleo Henry
Butch queer desire is found and scattered again through internet images.
But I never made it to Sicily by Lorelei Bacht
What it takes to never quite make it there.
Rendezvous by Fran Fernández Arce
The body becomes an urban landscape.
gardens around the globe by Sameeya Maqbool
Sameeya’s poetry explores her experience of cultural hybridity as a British Pakistani woman of Islamic faith.
Flotsam by A. W. Earl
Flotsam is a poem about identity and childbirth.
American Cassava by Samuel Williams
Samuel’s poem ‘American Cassava’ captures various experiences within the scope of a life.
Eighth Wonder by Beth Booth
Thinking far too much about everything.
MORE POETRY
Whip Stitch by Becca McGilloway
I used to sew / along the edge of my body / – to interrupt / the Mare unraveling / my stitched skin.
John the Baptist as Whale by Josie Jocelyn Deane
There are two elements: / The voice and the wilderness of / Ocean — both thoroughly defined / though one, more wholly —
the artist extols days past (with land carved onto the backs of men) by Prem Sylvester
there is a sun behind you as hollow as the sound from / within your claims to the land it sets on kranti weeps not within
Well-Tempered by Meghan Purvis
I am tremendous fun at dinner parties / I say this as a joke but it’s true, I talk / and hardly pause for breath, a ticking metronome / of story punchline setup story and only rest a moment
For the Bear by Meghan Purvis
When they decided to kill the priest it was winter / and they wanted it slow. They led him out barefoot / to a steaming pot, and had us each take turns / dipping an enormous ladle, black from other hands.