‘…capitalism can make you feel that unless you’re producing something brilliant, shiny and saleable, then you’re not an artist.’
“Gardening, the act of putting my hands into the soil, saves me time and again.”
“So my mind is full of what home means, whether it’s a place, a person, or a feeling, when the train pulls into the station and I climb aboard, looking for Dad.”
An interview with award winning poet, writer and teacher, John McCullough.
“It was brutal, but wasn’t that what nature was, what we were, made brutal by our drive to survive?”
“Paolo felt for each step like a child in the dark. There was a rattle coming from his insides, like a shaken bag of scrabble letters; clink, clink, clink.”
‘One day Theo handed me a roll of electric fencing. “Hold this for a second, Nels,” he said. “You won’t connect it, will you?” I ask. “Nah, course not,” he says.’
Kerry Priest is a poet, sound artist and playwright. I caught up with her digitally to talk poetry, life and 2020.
Learning to embrace imperfection in life and writing
Robert Garnham, aka The Professor of Whimsy, has been taking his much-loved brand of LGBT whimsy and humour to UK audiences for over a decade.
I catch up with poet and producer Chris White to see how he is faring, creatively and otherwise during lockdown.
Bard of Exeter and popular host of Taking the Mic talks about lockdown creativity, climate denial and his affection for Kate Bush in this poetry profile
Sonnet 8 ‘And suddenly it’s love, no matter who I’m writing to. It used to be warm wishes, kind regards or yours sincerely. Now it’s
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