for others, you, me, no one
By Naia Lucy Briscall
Naia Lucy Briscall's poetry collection documents the transition and fluctuation of one's own ego within relationships and the internal conversation that happens as a result. Read More
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#yogaeverydamnday
By Rachel David
Rachel David imagines the freedom of being a cat: not just being super strong and flexible, but mainly being able to do all this and not care what other people think Read More
3 weeks ago
Honesty lines
By Alice Godliman
Alice Godliman's thoughtful poem explores the joy in aging with the expectation of perpetual youth. Read More
6 months ago
Look Away, Look Away
By Ann Howells
Ann Howells' moving poem explores the inherited climate crisis and it's effects on our future. Read More
8 months ago
My Mother Fights a Gentle Breeze and Loses
By Alexandra Burton
Alexandra Burton's visceral poem delves into the pain we inherit from those who raise us. Read More
9 months ago
All The Things You Left Behind
By Zena Spiers
Zena Spiers looks at inheritance through the prism of grief and what someone leaves behind. Read More
9 months ago
What We Inherit
By Gerry Stewart
Tensions and silences build in a poem that examines the family traits we want to avoid inheriting, but seem bound to take on. Read More
9 months ago
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