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

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

Vera

By Leilia Dore

How does the meaning and mythology we attach to cherished possessions change over time? Read More

My Therapist Asks Me How My Week’s Been

By Scarlett Ward

Scarlett Ward's poem explores the necessity of retreating, specifically as a woman. TW: assault Read More

Azul

By Safa Maryam

Explore the strange comfort in 'retreating' into sadness. Read More

Blobby, Blobby, Blobby

By Charlotte Evans

Charlotte Evans explores how her nan inspires her writing, even without her realising. Read More

laura may, charlotte rose

By Charlotte Evans

Let yourself be pulled into imagination. Read More

MUSCLE MEMORY | In Leanne Moden’s poem, the musical process becomes play.

Poem Read More

ALICE ADRIFT | Sarah Howells disappears down the rabbit hole with this short story about a first love.

Fiction Read More