Peter Dukes’ poem ‘Tragic, Super-Tragic’ won the third prize in the 2017 Basil Bunting Poetry Competition. Read the third-prize poem
Jo Young’s poem ‘Canopoly’ won the first prize in the 2017 Basil Bunting Poetry Competition. Read the first-prize poem
The Shaddock Pomelo; plump pulp bunched at branches’ bottom, Pulling hard on thick limbs Against the hulked leg rising six metres to the sky. The…
Clew I It turns out you can get lost anywhere. English garden, broad daylight, walk into a maze; find yourself, midlife, circling your childhood years….
The Woman who Married the North Sea You know what they say about older men. Experienced. He was a Viking; bold, black as a conger…
Temporary Accommodation She crouches in the crawl space underneath some plywood half-fallen against a muddle of abandoned breezeblocks, waits in the small, dry hollow her…
Dust An open window, the scent of rain thick and sweet on tarmac. In every drop, you say, a piece of dust; beneath our bed…
Hearth Peter, Magdalena, their fourteen children, heads bowed over mieliepap, give thanks to Ons Heer for the dry cave and the warm breath of their…
Hastati They flicker to attention, a shoal switchblading, blinking at bellowed orders, nervous in anticipation of the wrong-foot or a stumbled halt. Among the new…
Taking my Echo He leaves me to undress, apologising when the gown is torn, lays me on my side, plumped on cotton pillows, smears my…
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