Skeleton Architecture

I seem to have been super busy lately, and I'm only just getting the feeling I'm catching up on myself, not that I'll ever get the to-do list finished, but lately I've been wondering if we can't just burn the second page of it. Brexit is still happening, we now have a prime minister my daughter calls Bobby Jobby, and women of colour on the BBC are getting grief for calling Donald Trump racist. FFS. I saw this quote from the previous American laureate Tracy K Smith in The Rialto. She finished her term this year and has been replaced by Joy Harjo. If you agree with her that poetry is a necessary remedy to the darkness you're in, here are some open windows to hurl your poetic light through... The Poetry Village  - they're lovely people, whose imprint, Maytree Press, will be publishing my first chapbook next year!!! They publish two poems a week online, plus gorgeous art. Their window is currently always open. Southlight  - based in the South of Sco...

Back in June 2017 I had a  villanelle  (the poem form, not the Killing Eve character) published in The Interpreter's House #65. I loved The Interpreter's House. Back then they published these beautiful little journals with gorgeous graphics, lovely formatting, and great poems, so I was really interested in 2018 when all changed in the House. The people, the website, the logo, even that beautiful format. The Interpreter's House is now edited by Georgi Gill, assisted by  Andrew Wells  and it comes out three times a year as a freely accessible online magazine. You'll find it  here . It is still beautiful, it still boasts gorgeous graphics, lovely formatting, and great poems, and now it's easier to access. As well as editing The Interpreter's House, Georgi Gill is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, exploring poetry in dialogues about multiple sclerosis. Her chief areas of interest, according to  her website  are "the work of Ciaran Cars...