Poetry

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

Friday, 08 December 2023 13:18

Sorry We Missed You

Written by Ben Banyard

in Poetry

Sorry We Missed You by Ben Banyard Get to the depot at stupid o'clock to load Internet impulse purchasesinto a hired van using a rented handheld.It shows you the route, simple, they said,park wherever with your hazards on,jump out and hand it over, no worries. But new guys get the…

Thursday, 07 December 2023 15:25

Optimism of the Imagination

Written by Mario Relich

in Poetry

According to Greta Thunberg, ‘Beyonce was wrong. Girls don’t run the world: corporations and financial interests do.’ But how do you write poems about the kind of world we live in, as defined by Thunberg? One way of doing so is by keeping such a conviction as an undercurrent, but…

Thursday, 07 December 2023 12:42

Angels of Light

Written by Nick Moss

in Poetry

Angels of Light by Nick Moss Eichmann’s first day at the International Criminal Court Checks his in-tray, prepares a list.Sets down the journal he’s bought from Aspinalls. Traces his fingers across the surface of the coverThe softness of full-grain leather.Places the Montegrappa pen alongside. One of 888.A limited edition. Where…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 07 December 2023 00:00

White Phosphorus

in Poetry

Written by Alan Morrison

White Phosphorus A Ghazal for Gaza written on 5th November 2023 All Hallows’ Eve 2023, tenth anniversaryOf my mother’s passing from Huntington’s Disease; Outside the half-curtained living room windowExcited laughter of children doing trick or treat— Over 2,000 miles away, screams in the darkOf Gazan night, pitch black but for…

White Phosphorus Gaza Palestine fireworks 5th November All Hallows' Eve

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 06 December 2023 10:30

Imagine

in Poetry

Written by Steve Pottinger

Imagine by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Alix Emery To the apologists for genocide who choose to walk in no-one’s shoes but their own Imagine all this happeningto your children. And to your neighbour’s children. And to the children who play footballup and down your street, in thedust and…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:08

This pen this hand

in Poetry

Written by Charlie Weinberg

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:36

The Comeback Kings

in Poetry

Written by Paul Francis

The Comeback Kings by Paul Francis, with image by Martin Rowson Time for a golden oldies track -the Tony/Peter duo’s backto tell their fans they’re thrilled to bitsthey can replay their greatest hits.It’s leadership that matters most.“The party” is a fading ghost;commitments, values, Labour’s soul?Stuff that. It’s all about controland…

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 11:09

a healthy return

Written by Martin Hayes

in Poetry

a healthy return by Martin Hayes there was this placeand it wasn’t a town or a citybut people lived thereand there was one shop and one pubthey all went toand the shop had eggs and beans for the people to buybut the shop shut down when the distribution companycouldn’t get…

Thursday, 23 November 2023 10:43

A Greater Loss

Written by Jenny Mitchell

in Poetry

A Greater Loss by Jenny Mitchell The first report is of a dozen migrants – eight men, three women and a child battered on the rocks, boat a pile of sticks floating on the surface with the dregs of clothes. As the camera swerves, it reveals a housebeneath the waves,…

Thursday, 16 November 2023 21:27

The Breaking of Bread and Catastrophe: Two poems on Gaza

Written by Janet Sillett

in Poetry

The breaking of bread by Janet Sillett Families queuing for round flat loaveseach morning before dawn the struggle for bread Sharq Bakery in Gaza City bombed late October 2023in the doorway blood mixes with flour the smell of baking lingering in the space that is left I recall Jewish black…

Genocide in Gaza

Wednesday, 15 November 2023 09:20

Mandatory Compliance

Written by Steven Taylor

in Poetry

Mandatory Compliance by Steven Taylor Everyone on television Even weathermen and womenFootball commentatorsComedians, and more serious folk Naturalists and gardeners The panels on the dancing showsThe people in the advertsThe winners of the Lottery All the politicians, presenters Wears a Poppy in RemembranceObserves the minute silence. Shush Gaza is too…

Suella Braverman Armistice Day