Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part One

Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part One

  It’s that time again! The annual Cork-Coventry poetry exchange is now in its sixteenth year. Two rising stars of Coventry’s local poetry and spoken word scene, Ann Atkins and Amy Rugg, have been selected to represent the city for 2024, which involves...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROSALIN BLUE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROSALIN BLUE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ROSALIN BLUE   “And wild as creatures of the dark we love like hunting through the forest of Eden rising in the mists of fragrance releasing our desire to the moon” -Excerpt from ‘Hunters Moon’ [unpublished]      ...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS KATHRYN O’DRISCOLL

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS KATHRYN O’DRISCOLL

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS KATHRYN O’DRISCOLL     I lie down in a bath brim-filled with peonies and feel their soft crush beneath my weight. That soundless collapse of a teen girl. The emptiness of discarded velvet dresses. Pink blood blot tests me where I move,...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASHLEY EDGE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASHLEY EDGE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ASHLEY EDGE     Ashley Edge is a non-binary, autistic poet from Staffordshire, with a Cheshire twang and Spanish heart. They have won multiple poetry slams, were shortlisted for the National Poetry Day (2019) YouTube event ‘Speak...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MARTIN FIGURA

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MARTIN FIGURA

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MARTIN FIGURA     Award-winning poet Martin Figura was born in Liverpool and lives in Norwich, with Helen Ivory and sciatica. Together they began hosting Live from The Butchery Zoom readings with renowned guest poets during the UK...