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by Pete Hebden
Breathe thenhereand hereas you mouth the words in your headthen tell me again my poems are oral,yours are for the page.Let’s hear the respiratio...
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by Pete Hebden
I didn’t believe it for a minute but turning the corner at the lights saw him waiting on the opposite pavement outside A1 Discounts to cross.
Tho...
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by Pete Hebden
Tonight, Matthew…
I will ascend the possibilities of myself: my indifferent health,my tendency to baulk, the temperI was warned would hold me back...
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by Pete Hebden
This is not a love poemit’s a note on the fridgethat I didn’t bother to writebecause we don’t have any post-itsor alphabetised fridge magnetsor mar...
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by Pete Hebden
Some of the most compelling poems are those which describe a feeling that can’t quite be named, but that the poet can conjure up in such a clear an...
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by Pete Hebden
Yesterday evening I finished with my imaginary boyfriend. He knew what I was going to say before I said it which was top of my listof reasons why w...
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by Pete Hebden
In his latest collection, Speculatrix (Penned in the Margins, 2014), Chris McCabe ranges far and wide in time and locale for his subject matter, fr...
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by Pete Hebden
Grandfather almighty,Captain of the clouds,Steer us through the stormsWith your aneroid barometer.
Commandeer the compass point,Swing the sickle m...
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by Pete Hebden
Brooklyn-based publishers Ugly Duckling Presse produce some truly stunning books and pamphlets. Their artisan approach to the publishing process st...
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by Pete Hebden
Despite your lessonsI never learnt to sew.I could never master the fluid movement required to darn a tearsealing it tight.Could never emulate the s...
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by Pete Hebden
I’ve been saving this one up for weeks and finally the time is here.
This week’s poem comes from David Attwool’s great new collection The Sound L...
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by Pete Hebden
That’s the thing with those nights,and then that nightwe both went and said those things;the countless, innumerable thingscollected upover all thos...
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