George 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…
Amy 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…
Walking 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…
Philip 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…
Alan 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…
David 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…
Tim 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,…
Nathan 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…
Philip 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…
Sarianne Durie – Landscapes
THE ICE BOOK OF CHINA after Xu Bing Bees rise from fragrant grasses Patterns repeat on terraced ground lines repeat lines …