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It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Poetry

How and when the body collapses

23 September 2023 / 292

How and when the body collapses by Fran Lock / there’s a breach in the breath./ in that which surrounds and circulates./ in the warm gulf between... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Academia

16 September 2023 / 296

Academia by Jenny Mitchell, with above image by Chad McCail This is not a campus for the poor. The posh,in drab designer clothes, labels on the outside... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Igniting the Fire: Poetry and Keeping Hope Alive

14 September 2023 / 331

I began writing this quarterly column looking for reasons to stay ‘hopeful’, whatever that means. I used to know. Or else, I thought I did: something like... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Daffodils by Fran Lock and what of them? hardy stragglersbetween wastelands, waste laneswith the weather wetly trepanning the factories. by junctions of squathope, the stooping of resolute... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Respite

10 August 2023 / 357

Respite by Wayne Dean-Richards I watch an episode of the original Star Trek TV series, followed immediately by an episode ofWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? followed... Continue reading

Wayne Dean-Richards

Poetry

imitating wordsworth

7 August 2023 / 301

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Dakota Pollock

Poetry

Review of ‘The Dogs’ and ‘Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar’

7 August 2023 / 330

Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack: The Dogs, by Michael Stewart, and Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Michael Stewart’s The Dogs... Continue reading

Nick Moss

Poetry

My Liverpool Home

3 August 2023 / 340

My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,... Continue reading

Ruth Aylett

Poetry

Whippoorwills and Welding Rods

25 July 2023 / 331

Whippoorwills and Welding Rods by Fred Voss When I first started in a machine shopI didn’t even know how t use a file“Didn’t anyone teach you how... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

15 July 2023 / 351

The ©Rime of the Centrist Academic By I.L. Literate I’m supposed to earn a living from original thoughtAnd question power structures of every sort.I claim to be... Continue reading

I. L. Literate