Dan 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…
Jos 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…
Amanda 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.…
Tim 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…
Evelyn 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…
Yvonne 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…
An 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…
Philip 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…
Robert 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…
Camilla Nelson – Three New Poems
Camilla Nelson is a poet, artist and researcher, currently based in Somerset. She…