My Grandmother’s Stories When I ask her of her past It seems so beautiful She tells me of her snakeskin wedges On her wedding day…
Ammonite Dizzying hair’s breadth height This tiny swirl of time, Seen like a shadow In the dead grey rock Rock split In two halves The…
No Ducks Around in Winter My sister died today, doesn’t want a wake, anyone looking down on her. Two, she found a box of baby…
Three beers in, Sunset Beach, Vancouver I wish I had more to give you than this Red Truck beer – cheapest in the liquor store…
Head Of A Girl with her boyfriend, in a photo booth – not quite ready for the flash, she’s grinning at the side of his…
‘Portrait of the Slave Owner as a Door’ was a Commended Poem in the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Competition.
Ga Lessons in Grandma’s Kitchen The only Ga I know is brief and functional: Mi nuu shi shi. I don’t understand. I am standing in…
I try to make sense of things by standing very close to windows i. Morning felt like an ungraceful attempt to pull myself onto the…
Juice All through Tuesday the air smelled like one big orange slice as if l could dip my fingers in the bedroom wall and…
Lisa Higgs’ poem ‘Wild Honey Has The Scent Of Freedom’ won the second prize in the 2017 Basil Bunting Poetry competition. Read the second-prize poem
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