Stretches

Poems about poems, writers and writing.

Cherry

On Poetry Readings

There is a bra in this poem, there's a teaser for you!

51 and Crockery

I woke to exclamations of the trails the fish left, indecently turned up, like trolley poles. I too, much later, looked on astonished, at the long
Cherry

The Saison Poetry Library Does Not Charge For Overdue Books

A poor poet before Christmas, stubborn coins and a grateful writer.

It’s Pronounced Pro-crast-i-nation

A poem about not writing a poem.

That’s That

with a yuck, ukh, too salty.

Do Typewriters Dream Of Poetry?

Do typewriters dream of poetry? Answer revealed here!
Cherry

Tony Dunne Has Had The Same Song In His Head Since Tuesday

Tony Dunne will not suggest a slideshow, would stuff the gaps with stories, has found enigmas...Tony Dunne has lots to say.
Cherry

Three Poachers and a Poet in a Sequin Beret

How do conversations like this start? In five-minutes-for-the-haddock queues? Purgatory waiting rooms? A Midland Mainline delay? So that you can imagine it -
Cherry

The Creased Dyslexic and the Fine Artist

A public hanging. Tense canvases stretched taut, cadmium poppies grimacing, the wire slack, them: leaning forward, kicking away from the wall. I can spot it from Twenty feet.

Portraits

Sitting was an irritant, loathed: my fringe tickled my wrist , my back itched, my shin did too. Minutes were six weeks long, waiting for you to finish the eyebrows

Reading Poetry to the Ravens

A poem about teaching a raven Poe.

Reading a Friend in London

Comforting. I pot-lucked a magazine about sadness in fences, found your name dangling by an odd number. It was not like any other page: your hand reached out to pat mine

I have found the poetry in this house

I have found the poetry in this house, sunk my fingers deep between the gaps as if they were slabs of ginger cake. I have knocked the stones open with a toffee hammer, pulled out

Instrumental

This is what it is sometimes: the papers sounds like papers people walking like people walking, there is no tomfoolery, it is just a deli they meant no more than to make you want it.