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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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 ...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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 ...
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by Pete Hebden
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 ...
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by Pete Hebden
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...
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by Pete Hebden
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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