Honesty lines
By Alice Godliman
Alice Godliman's thoughtful poem explores the joy in aging with the expectation of perpetual youth. Read More
2 months ago
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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
4 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
5 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
5 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
5 months ago
Defensive Earthworks
By Rebecca Cooney
A poem that looks at the inevitable behaviours and patterns we cannot help but repeat. Read More
6 months ago
In Her Words
By Alice Whiting
Words taken from a collection of letters sent by the writer's grandmother capture what she left behind. Read More
6 months ago
One Breath
By Jess Costello
Explore the grounding power of breath and the many tiny miracles that exist in existing. Read More
9 months ago
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