Emmanuel by Fran Lock sometimes the sky fights me. sometimes the dayis a dogful of loss. sometimes the day is a desert,a prolonged and hopeless music. how... Continue reading
Fran Lock interviews Dorothy Spencer, an editor at Lumpen journal, writer, poet and mental health worker. Her first collection, See What Life is Like was published by... Continue reading
Other/ White Other by Fran Lock There is silence in the workshop when the young woman asks me am I sure I’m white. Silence, not embarrassed, but... Continue reading
Fran Lock interviews Julia Bell Background Julia Bell is a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, where she is the Course Director... Continue reading
Poem for the Feast of Saint Francis on the subject of forgiveness, October 4th 2020 by Fran Lock i cried for the highlands last night. for myself.... Continue reading
Fran Lock writes about our potential to develop and publish a new kind of poetics, where solidarity and community can be fostered in moments of lyrical, dialectical... Continue reading
Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading
Fran Lock writes about poetry and class, in the latest in the series of jointly published Morning Star/Culture Matters articles on the effects of the pandemic on... Continue reading
a break in the weather by Fran Lock, with image by Steev Burgess even the dogs, distended with heat. i wanted rain.women with their conscientious shopping washedaway.... Continue reading
breath by Fran Lock, with image by Martin Gollan inside this symmetrical fiction of skins, we do not courtthe carnivore attentions of a cop with eyes like... Continue reading