Jack Clemo – Barney’s Tricks
‘Barney’s Tricks’ was written in October 1937, when the novelist, poet and autobiographer Jack Clemo (1916-1994) was 21 years old, and was published in Saundry’s…
Read articleGeorge Ttoouli – Three New Poems
George Ttoouli’s first collection of poetry is ‘Static Exile‘ (Penned in the Margins, 2009). His second, ‘from Animal Illicit’ is due…
Read articleAmy Cutler – from ‘Glitch’
We are very pleased to be publishing an extract from Amy Cutler’s new sequence of poems Glitch. This is a work which draws on botanical misnomers and the cultural…
Read articleWalking the Landscape of HS2 – Jos Smith
In the summer of 2013 Jos Smith set out to walk the length of the first section of the proposed route of HS2 from London to…
Read articlePhilip Gross – Two Snow Poems
Philip Gross is an award-winning poet, novelist and a teacher of creative writing. In 2009 his collection The Water Table won the T.S. Eliot Prize…
Read articleAlan M. Kent and M.J. Forster
CONVERSATIONS WITH A BRETON WOODSMAN Sawdust sticks to the sweat on his philtrum, this moist August, here in Melioneg, where his bark-born hands guide…
Read articleDavid Troupes – from ‘God of Corn’
These poems are from a developing sequence titled God of Corn. Each poem begins with a line or passage from J G Holland’s 1865 multi-volume book A…
Read articleTim Dee – ‘Vinegar, Sawing, Smoking’
(This essay begins with two paragraphs that were published in Four Fields.) In the autumn of 1986, four months after the disaster at Chernobyl,…
Read articleNathan Thompson – from ‘Signs’
Near Exeter Prison, on Blackall Road, there’s an old metal plaque on a wall that reads: I don’t like text in art but walking along…
Read articlePhilip Dunshea – Marchlands
I’m going for a walk in the Marchlands. This is where England and Wales are supposed to meet, but it’s always been a bit less precise…
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