– Does the soft blend of primary colours scattered across my body, frustrate you to assume a frantic dark and light shadow occurs in my past. Why? – Do the curls seated below my eyelids offend you, that you render them unnatural with your cosmetic praise and implied imitation. Why? – Does the length of…
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Award-winning Poetry Collection by Raef Boylan
This is the award-winning poetry collection from the Fred Holland Poetry Collection Award 2014, including Catherdral Lanes at 19.30 on a Sunday, Letter to My Home Town, Postponement and ‘Coventriert’.
Chains by Matt Barton
I saw a man in chains once. A boat barely afloat on some remote shore; a man who spoke about it and found himself lost for speech, crossed, impeached, his self-seeing this broken boat with men on the decks bedecked in chains and pain on their faces. The feeling seeing it was something new, a…
How to Make a Poet by Tim Dubbelman
Step 1: take a human, Young, new, a blank slate, And stuff him with: Words Letters Beauty Light Happiness Hope And the knowledge that they can be what they want to be. Step 2: mix with other humans. Allow a few years to mingle, Make friends Gain LIFE EXPERIENCE Let them learn that words…
Gin and Tonic by Ebony Ashantai
The women want “rights” while the soldiers go to fight but I just want my Gin and Tonic Every minute there’s a siren “Bang!” another life’s gone but I just want my Gin and Tonic Survival of the fittest who’s next on the hit-list? I just want my Gin and Tonic Then a bomb suddenly…