Eddie Procter – The Rhiws of the Black Mountains: Liminal Ways, Old Beyond Memory
“The twins looked on the path to the Eagle Stone as their own private property. ‘It’s Our Path!’ they’d shout if they happened to meet…
Read articleDan Eltringham – Forced Fingers
We are very pleased this week to be publishing an extract from the sequence Forced Fingers by Dan Eltringham. Drawing on the language of folk wisdom, global agribusiness, literary…
Read articleJos Smith – ‘A Partly Real, Partly Imagined-Country’
Defining the rural is a notoriously difficult thing to do. ‘Not the urban’ might be the closest we can come but such a cumbersome negativity…
Read articleAmanda Bell – Two New Poems
BURREN VULTURE Captive at the raptor centre, far from the dakhma, you hop among spectators – plucked neck undulating towards your prehistoric head.…
Read articleTim Cresswell – Two New Poems
FOSTER COAT Ewes are excellent mothers they need lambs in lambing season. So when a lamb is still-born or dies hung hanging from the…
Read articleEvelyn O’Malley – Adventures in the Forest of Arden
Evelyn O’Malley is researching audiences, Shakespeare, place and environment for her PhD at the University of Exeter. In summer 2014, she followed a tour of Taking…
Read articleYvonne Reddick – Three New Poems
Yvonne Reddick is a Research Fellow in Modern English and World Literatures at the University of Lancashire. She was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Memorial Prize…
Read articleAn Interview with Tim Dee
Luke Thompson: You went to the BBC to become a radio producer and have said that you tend to make programmes on poetry and nature…
Read articlePhilip Lancaster – Two New Poems
RELIC OF HOPE Pale sky-bound hand of earth thrust up from hollowed ground’s soul; once dark, full-fleshed, exhaling bright speech through thick wild…
Read articleRobert Crawford – Two New Poems
LONGING Over the standing stones of Machrie Moor Starlight discharges midges across Arran. The sea is a heron’s breast; desire Moist lips in front…
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