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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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Because We’re Mortals
By Courtney Burk
Courtney Burk's poem explores the end of a pleasurable day where the speaker realises her own mortality against the backdrop of classical mythology Read More
4 months ago
Don’t Let Them Get High Off Your Narcissistic Supply: Rule #1 Do Not Offer Yourself Up as the Scapegoat
By Riley Forsythe
Don’t Get High off Your Narcissistic Supply is a series of poems that offer up nurturing advice to anyone who, like an awkward newborn giraffe stumbles to find their footing on sturdy ground, has newly awakened to realise they have been the victim of narcissistic abuse. The series aims to gently support with wry humour and inner child healing suggestions. Read More
6 months ago
Pub Crawl
By Safa Maryam
In Pub Crawl, the narrator finds herself in a familiar setting and situation. This time, however, she is years older and a little wiser to the rose-tinted and romanticised view she had of the same scene and circumstances she stood in so many times before, when she was just nineteen and in love. Read More
6 months ago
At Work and Talking to You
By Sophie Diver
At Work and Talking to You centres around those conversations we’ve all found ourselves in, often in the workplace, navigating between self-worth and the judgment of others. Wisdom truly reveals itself in how we deal with conversations like this and the poem delivers tenderness to an otherwise irritating experience. Read More
7 months ago
New Baby Smell
By Briony Bunker
Briony's poem explores the wisdom gained from having a baby - the truths that confound expectations and the secret, unspoken club you join with other parents. Read More
7 months ago
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
10 months ago
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