Freckles

By Ellen Perry

Ellen Perry's touching pieces reflects on her shifting relationship with her freckles: inherited, hated, and now appreciated. Read More

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

Our current theme: MYTH

A made-up story, or something we want to believe in? For our next theme, we want to know what MYTH means to you. Submit by 17 April. Read More

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

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

May Day

By Rebecca Clark

Sometimes, in these strange, expansive lockdown days, she plays the game of parallel lives. Read More

Defensive Earthworks

By Rebecca Cooney

A poem that looks at the inevitable behaviours and patterns we cannot help but repeat. Read More

Supper

By Jemma Marie

'The past is on my chopping board oozing innocence and guilt.' Confronting and accepting your past – by cutting, quartering and cooking it. Read More

The FrankenTeds

By Farzana Amehd

What's in a name? Farzana Amehd looks at the history that has been passed down in hers. Read More

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