Blog | The Madrigal

Mar 2
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I Grow Tired Of Drowning, For I Am Not A Witch

I Grow Tired Of Drowning, For I Am Not A Witch by helen jenks I have written so many things, changed the speaker of my poems like a...

Sue Chenette

Mar 2
2 min

Tiny Golden Ovals Massed Wet and Gleaming

Tiny Golden Ovals Massed Wet and Gleaming by sue chenette where I turn to walk up Jane Street the day damp wind and scudding thought...

Aoife-Marie Buckley

Mar 2
1 min

Clearing

Clearing by aoife-marie buckley New Year’s morning, I walk out early to last night’s prow. We all held hands and gave our Auld Lang Syne...

Zainab Abubakar

Mar 2
2 min

METAMORPHOSIS

METAMORPHOSIS by zainab abubakar Eid & there is the smell of a busy morning of cloves & someone making tea of green leaves doused in...

Richard Devereux

Mar 2
1 min

Maslow's Pyramid

Maslow's Pyramid by richard devereux Now you’ve retired, they ask, how will you fill your time? It’s as if they know a sink-hole will...

Deidri Reddington

Mar 2
1 min

Window on Pamet Marsh

Window on Pamet Marsh by deirdri reddington for maya Heron stands, neck a blade of salt grass genuflecting skyward like your hands in...

Denise O'Hagan

Mar 2
1 min

The language of leaves

The language of leaves by denise o'hagan Isabella and the pot of basil: A modern retelling (after Boccaccio’s novella in the Decameron,...

Claire Burnett

Mar 2
1 min

Matroyska/Four Ages

Matroyska/Four Ages by claire burnett I clear deadwood / gather discarded angle iron pull away the suspended floor of bindweed /...

Stephanie Holden

Mar 2
1 min

and god saw everything he made, and behold, it was very good (genesis 2:31)

and god saw everything he made, and behold, it was very good (genesis 2:31) by stephanie holden you are your own god re born under a ...

Hana Wilde

Mar 2
1 min

down

down by hana wilde when you were a seal, your belly reflected in the water, a harvest moon skin split with silver, you moved quietly...

Thea Hatton

Mar 2
2 min

Diana and Actaeon

Diana and Actaeon by thea hatton How likely the story the stink of you rustling the leaves of the bush where you lay hidden...

Martin Kennedy Yates

Mar 2
1 min

Commute

Commute from the Latin commutare, "to change altogether" by martin kennedy yates The sky this morning is all the elements dissolved in...

Lucy Holmes

Mar 2
1 min

III. II. I.

III. II. I. by lucy holmes Let her water rise up to meet me That godly tide - dividing- the land at the shore Rising, polarising, Calling...

Rachel Jeffcoat

Mar 2
1 min

BREAKWATER

BREAKWATER by rachel jeffcoat My son tells me that tomorrow, in class, they are building tiny sea defences. They stop the land from being...

Ernest Kearney

Mar 2
1 min

To Adonis

To Adonis by ernest kearney Have the crimson anemones flowered yet? Under the sun scorched earth the sea did take you. Alone. And yet...

Karla Hirsch

Mar 2
1 min

sonnet i

sonnet i by karla hirsch blue, I mean sky, I mean heat. let’s expand like yellow parasols, sun-hungry. Build hives around the barbecue,...

Aoibh Anna

Mar 2
1 min

Narcissus Retold

Narcissus Retold by aoibh anna myth-making on my bedroom floor They told her she would live a long life if only she never discovered...

Adeline Loh

Mar 2
1 min

Daphne, Always Running

Daphne, Always Running by adeline loh Why try to outrun a god? I never run out of reasons to keep going, forget how much money it costs...

Siobhan Kilsby

Mar 2
1 min

When I Became Kraken

When I Became Kraken by siobhan kilsby when I became Kraken, it was for this reason I had not not thought of drowning in six months...

Maggie Fulmer

Mar 2
1 min

Miles from October, there is heat

Miles from October, there is heat by maggie fulmer – dandelions in the backyard, ice on my tongue. I glance at the clock on the stove,...