You promised it wouldn’t happen again and this time there weren’t enough towels to deal with the physics. Fill. Overflow. The mechanics of weight and volume …
Visitors (Tony Walton)
They come for you- in old fashioned hats, from where you don’t know, to fuck you hard against every wall you’ve built up. They know how to pick all …
My own private apocalypse (Oliver Driscoll)
I start with the irises. My sister-in-law was here on the weekend and called them chrysanthemums but she did not explain why. Later I eradicate the years between 1768 and …
Apocrypha (Gregory Horne)
After Bugs Bunny in Drag the first real girl I loved sat at the end of the last pew in St Lawrence’s. Next to her, her jet black mother, a …
An Impulse / Action (Robbie Coburn)
Woodstock- struck by winter a cold wind breaks up the sky. cold /makes decisions (ending) a shade of frost descended on the grasses. to the west a light beyond the …
Jimmy Watson’s (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Last time I saw you during the autumn of ninety-two we got drunk at Jimmy Watson’s celebrating your girlfriend’s twentieth You wore your t-shirt inside out making some kind of …
8am (Yolande Norris)
8am at the lights on a wave of fuming plastic, new car smell the son is young and beautiful, dead-eyed out the window Yolande Norris is a writer and producer based …
100 holes in my bucket (PS Cottier)
I will never: 1. Bungee, shouting yolo 2. Use the acronym yolo, except in this poem 3. Scuba at sea (it feels like choking even in the swimming pool) 4. …
Grand Mont (Michele Seminara)
A cat scrambles in the cave of my sex my heart is infested by desire; Jupiter has been with Leda and this typewriter is guilty with love. Electrified with memories …
Conflagration (Lizz Murphy)
What noises are they today tonight whose footsteps which train that dog barking who now laughs is it the trees shaking their bellies thundering their fruit even when I am …