Martha Sprackland ‘We just watched. A pandemic was always at the top of our national risk register – always – but when it came we just slowly watched. We could …
Editorial: Cathedral Thinking
Martha Sprackland One day a man of the people said to Zen Master Ikkyū: ‘Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?’ Ikkyū immediately took his …
Domestic (commended poem: 2015 competition)
Glass as day-blooming flower, television as mortar shell. Television as volleyball against white sun. Sun as broken glass, in fragments, glass as crazy paving on street below. Power cord as …
Competition 2015: Judge’s Report – Glyn Maxwell
I came to the judging for the Poetry London Competition still somewhat reeling from judging the (unfiltered) National Poetry Competition. Not that I hadn’t found some keepers and gems in …
