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Poem of the Week

  • Poem of the Week: 'Portballintrae Harbour' by Jan Carson

    Portballintrae Harbour Every New Year’s at midday we meet at the harbour and cast our ghosted bodies into the sea. We are no longer seventeen and ,...
  • Poem of the Week: 'Tattoo' by Nuala Ní Chonchúir

    Tattoo My body is a palimpsest under your hands, a papyrus scroll unfurled beneath you, waiting for your mark. I clean my skin, scrape it back to a...
  • Poem of the Week: 'Flora' by Siobhán Campbell

    Flora The cow is on top of her game, her haunches fat, her bones rounded. She feels the goddess power of her udder in the mould-damp dark of the ...
  • Poem of the Week: 'I Stop Writing the Poem' by Tess Gallagher

      I stop writing the poemto fold the clothes. No matter who livesor who dies, I’m still a woman.I’ll always have plenty to do.I bring the arms o...
  • Poem of the Week: 'iii. Music' by Raymond Antrobus

    iii. Music My mum cleans the kitchen, opens all the windows, blaring mixtapes dad made in the 80s. The ones he would bring round after he beat her....
  • Poem of the Week: 'Leavings' by Jacqueline Saphra

    Leavings The devils and the lunatics are loose;                                       bear your children, keep them close for now. Weave a cocoon ...
  • Poem of the Week: 'The Things you Find in a Poet's Beard' (section) by A. F. Harrold

    The Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard (section) There are fleas and flies and knots and nits, breadcrumbs, marmite stains and bits   of pencils...
  • Poem of the Week: 'Grass sings to her roots' by Jacquiline Gabbitas

      Grass sings to her roots   Man thinks these are the colours of air and water, of light and freeing, but before this they were ours:   our blades ...
  • Poem of the Week: a haiku by Andrew Gibbons

    Unfocused landscape -------- windows curtained with rain.            Days leaking into days.                            -------Andrew Gibbons   Thi...
  • Poem of the Week: 'Lap' by Michael Laskey

    Lap The children first, half a dozen revved up to arrive at the seaside surge around where we sit on the pebbles.   In their wake the grown-up...
  • Poem of the Week: 'Meeting My Fathers' by Katrina Naomi

    Meeting My Fathers Derek, first to arrive, is in Barbour shirt, sensible trousers; Sonnie wears denims, shirt open to mid-chest,  his St Christophe...
  • Poem of the Week: ‘On The Move’ by Chris Woods

    On The Move We are packed together like the contents of a suitcase. We cannot move. We have to move to another house. We haven’t enough rooms. We...