Event Alert – Poetry takes over Banyule for Voices in the Streets!
Coinciding with the beginning of the Sonic Poetry Festival, and as a collaboration between Mother Tongue Poetry and The City of Banyule, Voices in the […]
Articles by Gemma
<100-Word Review of Lanie Laynz’s ‘April’s Fool’ by Gemma White
‘April’s Fool’ by Lanie Laynz is an intentionally immature and highly energetic salute to early 2000s punk-pop artists like The Veronicas or Avril Lavigne. Laynz’s […]
<100-Word Review of Brittle Sun’s ‘Words in the Dirt’ by Jason Whatt
Brittle Sun’s new song ‘Words in the Dirt’ tells the tale of insomniac dysfunction and love on the edge of disintegration. ‘Craving makes the heart sick’ […]
Confessions of a Groupie by Paula Darvas
I have a confession to make. I am a groupie. A groupie of community house writing groups. I rediscovered writing after a tree change to […]
<100-Word Review of Simone Spittle’s ‘Refuge’ by Gemma White
Simone Spittle’s single ‘Refuge’ is not the kind of music I usually listen to. But that doesn’t mean it’s not appealing to me. The pure […]
With Apologies to Desirata – Lines of advice to Young Poets from an Old Flaneur by Saša Čuha
Choose to wear colour in spite of winter,it is the finest suit of armour. Jesus only died because noone dared save him,Know that being blessed […]
Three Poems by James Gering
The Heart Aflutter Icarus’s heart flutters like a butterfly and his breaths come in gasps when he thought breathing was reflexive. Darling Audrey tries to […]
Three Poems and Illustrations by Jade Walsh
Snatch I like to snatch things It gives me great snatchisfaction Do you think it’s wrong? […]
Three Poems by Gabrielle Everall
Venus-as-a-girl I am forbidden to own property but he wants me to own him. He sees me as an aristocrat when I am impoverished. I […]
Review of Fotoula Reynolds’ Kairós by Gemma White
Reading Kairós is like finding yourself in that still place on the surface of a lake from which radiating concentric ripples spring. It’s a calm […]
