by Pete Hebden
June 16, 2015
We're always told that you should never judge a book by its cover, but you have to admit that sometimes a cover can give you a pretty strong hint t...
by Pete Hebden
June 9, 2015
On the back cover of Jacques Prévert’s Selected Poems (Hearing Eye, 2002) the editors of the book note that Prévert ‘has been the most widely-read ...
by Pete Hebden
May 27, 2015
This week’s Poem of the Week comes from the excellent Jan Wagner collection Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, part of Arc Publications’ Visible P...
by Pete Hebden
May 12, 2015
Little king, my prey, my twin,trail of pearls in the grass.
Glass bones in my wrist.Pulse in a maze of glass.
All throat and eyeand wrist and spy...
by Pete Hebden
May 5, 2015
Trapeze artist, tumbler, high-wire act - it never falters long enough for air or leaf to let it down, never miscalculatesthe velocity over the dist...
by Pete Hebden
April 27, 2015
You might have been thinking that we’d forgotten to post a Poem of the Week last week, but oh no, not us. It was all part of the plan. You see, thi...
by Pete Hebden
April 14, 2015
The one where she trips over a cordless phone,or tiptoes past the bathroom cabinet so she won’t wake the sleeping pills,
gets stabbed in a shoot o...
by Pete Hebden
April 7, 2015
A short and sweet one this week. Well, everyone loves kittens, don’t they?
Fin
A kitten will fight its own reflection,but stop abruptly around...
by Pete Hebden
March 31, 2015
I am an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silkand I speak only with a voice I’ve heard somewhere,a voice like an echo.I’ve given up blunders:that ...
by Pete Hebden
March 24, 2015
This week's favourite comes from Sarah Fletcher's new collection, Kissing Angles, which is out from Dead Ink this month. She provides a little bit ...
by Pete Hebden
March 17, 2015
This beautiful poem comes from Rebecca Tantony's new collection, Talk you round 'til dusk (Burning Eye), an entrancing mix of verse, prose poetry a...
by Pete Hebden
March 10, 2015
Just another glass tipped,chinking against his teeth.Just another night spentout, in regular hauntswhere they know what he wantsbefore the door beh...
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