David Crouch – An Essay in Place
David Crouch is a dad and husband; an exhibiting artist, gardener and a Professor of Cultural Geography, Humanities Department, Arts and Design, University of Derby.…
Mark Goodwin – ‘Serpent & Sea-Window’
SERPENT & SEA-WINDOW I Just about to step into a Tintagel Church’s graveyard: I’m first met by a long-stemmed stone-bloom of…
Paul Evans – Herbaceous
Celebrating the turning of the seasons this week we’re ‘bringing the may’ with a selection from Paul Evans’ extremely enjoyable new book of ‘audacious botany’ featuring…
Jo Bell – Two New Poems
PASSING TIME Under the flyover, the 21 deep locks, a flight of graves. And then the road, the yellow houses, neither-nor-lands, scrub and stream.…
“All is Lithogenesis” – Three Stony Poems
“All is lithogenesis” wrote Hugh MacDiarmid in ‘On a Raised Beach’ suggesting that all creation is founded on stone and its geological processes of formation…
Ben Short – An Uncomplicated Life
My life used to be complicated; it is no longer so. I left London over half a decade ago, having lived and worked in its…
Rupert Loydell – Three New Poems
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He…
‘Soft Estate’ – An Interview with Edward Chell
‘Soft Estate’ is a term used by the Highways Agency to describe those natural habitats that have evolved alongside motorways in this country. It is also…
Hugh Dunkerley – Two Poems
Hugh Dunkerley was born in Surrey, but grew up in Edinburgh and Bath. He now lives in Brighton with…
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…