Poem of the Month

New House – From The Mountain Behind the House, by Kobus Moolman   There is no mountain at the front of our new house. There are only birds and thin fever trees. There are only small [...]

Transitions – From Metaphysical Balm, by Michèle Betty for Marina Can you live on another plane, incarnate, soul travel to a different dimension, transmuted? Can you edge out your physical [...]

Mythology — From In Praise of Hotel Rooms, by Fiona Zerbst Roosters irradiate the dawn. Come day, this is my reminder, this is my gauge, and everything follows. Dipped sky, pale enclosure of [...]

Tokyo —From The Coroner’s Wife, by Joan Hambidge, translation by Charl JF Cilliers One morning I stood in the fish market watching the tuna, nori and aji on display. A practised fisherman, in [...]

The Raft of the Medusa – a painting by Théodore Géricault – From A Private Audience, by Beverly Rycroft At fifty-six I know – better than I did at twenty-three – how desperation can widen [...]

Crows are Building Nests of Stones — From Landscapes of Light and Loss, by Stephen Symons The sky has abandoned itself, whole cities hum folk songs of love and war, the ocean is no longer foamed [...]

Boundless — From Otherwise Occupied, by Sally Ann Murray You have no boundaries, he always said. It’s true. The time for that has long gone. Me, I keep coming back to the same old questions that [...]

Kestrel Our windhover – From Allegories of the Everyday, by Brian Walter It’s easy now to slip uphill, in cars, snaking up these smooth tarred roads to the Valley of Desolation, sacrificing [...]

Brown queen – From catalien, by Oliver Findlay Price of my imperfections, mole on my wrist, benign friend – you prod me to listen to the cat’s cry of my conscience, to read the calming [...]

The Vicious Beatitudes of Age: Ten Sonnets with a Coda From An Unobtrusive Vice, by Tony Ullyatt … 7 Crouched among the last surviving pieces of my life’s wreck, I seek a chemistry, some [...]