Poetry, short fiction. https://teapawt.net/t.co/snUAh3QcF4 Editor: @PeterkinLouise Open for submissions 1 April - 14 May and 1 Oct - 14 Nov.
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Very happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the lovely @theinterpreter6
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Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter's House (@theinterpreter6) alongside @Moette @tombranfoot and @vic_spires!
My piece 'Fourpence', narrated by the women of Whitechapel during the time of Jack the Ripper, can be read here: theinterpretershouse.org/hai…
Submissions open until 14 November inclusive.
@PeterkinLouise and Jo Bratten are keen to read your writing
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It's-a-story-today-15
"It is the rare seventh grade boy who worries about the morning after. Noah could not absorb the events of ‘Oh, What a Night!’ without imagining the aftermath."
What a joyous and warm story - "Drum Solos" by Angela Townsend
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Poem-a-day 14
"The mugshot was in care as a child. When I was
a child my parents would abandon the house for days
as if warned that a hurricane was approaching."
"Self-portrait with a Police Mugshot" Great stuff from Jacob Mckibbin
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Poem-a-day 13
"To be a big secret I have to keep myself
small and I have tried. Outside of his bed I am bodiless —
a wispy ghost that won’t touch your living world."
From the powerful "The Good Mistress" by Zoe R.
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Poem-a-day 12
"When I confronted him about
the [flytrap] with my [ficus], he said
[silence] & held my [hope] between
his [lilies]. He [provoked] the [tornado]"
From @BethanyJarmul innovative
"Mad Libs in the Botanical Garden after a Breakup"
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Poem-a-day 11
"A boy flies a dinosaur balloon
and the dogs scrap on. If she’d look out
she’d see me sat on the bench beneath
where the grass gleams like squid ink."
From "Looking through a window at dusk"
One of two fabulous poems by Zoë Green
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Poem-a-day 10
"Memories of where you put your tongue
in a dream hotel, the rooms all accessed
through chance: tiny doors that close
and open like eyelashes in the rain."
From the delicately erotic "The Last Time" by Michael Askew.
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Such a brilliant poetry magazine - can't praise @theinterpreter6 enough. Thanks to the team for supporting and publishing my work!
Poem-a-day 9
"or an open palm bartering warmth
in rations — even my voice
has firmed to a chiselled core
of consonants —this mild hour
in which I read you Elmer’s fate"
From the beautiful "Patchwork" by Warren Mortimer @Woz012
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Poem-a-day 9
"or an open palm bartering warmth
in rations — even my voice
has firmed to a chiselled core
of consonants —this mild hour
in which I read you Elmer’s fate"
From the beautiful "Patchwork" by Warren Mortimer @Woz012
theinterpretershouse.org/mor…
Poem-a-day 8
"5ml" from the always excellent Michael Conley
"The colour of the medicine is variable: sometimes neon pink,
sometimes yellow, sometimes opalescent, but the taste is always the same, bitter and comforting, like a childhood sick day."
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Poem-a-day 7
"The shadow line of emptiness between the halves—a winding road to nowhere. Pebbles like open mouths, scratched with teeth, the hunger of broken things."
Striking imagery in the brilliant "Broken Pebbles" by @CorinnaBoard
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Poem-a-day 6 is from our featured poet this issue, the superb @HendryKate
"What Scaredy Kate Does"
is desert the dangerous thing — her body.
Dumps it on the top deck of the 29
but her husband cycles to the depot,
claims it back from lost property.
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Poem-a-day 5
'The laugh track is banned from funerals, libraries, baptisms and awards ceremonies'
'Do you know what it’s like to be good at just one thing?'
Wit, pathos - lines from 'In defense of the laugh track' @karipindoria.
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Poem-a-day 4
'She, who grasped at passion, only to
eat dirt like a plant on stone!
I loved you passionately.
I buried myself in the sky'
'I am late for my appointment' one of two Marina Tsvetaeva poems, exquisitely translated by Belinda Cooke
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Poem-a-day 3
'Christ, shattered by comfort and ire,
that thrawn spear on the enter key
thrust daily, hourly into his side.'
The powerful 'Of the wounds', one of two poems by @ambulancebox
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