18 Sunday Sep 2016
Posted in flash fiction, poetry, Web Journal
Tags
Daniel Roy Connelly, fairytales, flash fiction, folklore, Louisa Campbell, mythology, Noah Mendez, Orla Fay, poetry, Rachael Smart, Rebecca Gethin, Sarah Miles, Stella Wulf, Stephanie Marcellus
Welcome to Issue Three! Featuring wonderful work by:
Sarah Miles, Rebecca Gethin, Noah Mendez, Stephanie Marcellus, Louisa Campbell, Stella Wulf, Daniel Roy Connelly, Rachael Smart, Orla Fay, and Andy Brown.
Enjoy! Continue reading
19 Sunday Jul 2015
Posted in poetry
Kelpie
Out of the rain a colt appeared on the shore –
he’d trotted through the bog on cupped hooves
that let him skim across suck and squelch.
In the sea’s dusk his eyes shone and the skin
inside his nostrils flared shell-pink -
he sniffed the air around me, stepped closer
and as he breathed out I smelled the seascape
from his lungs. Sensitive as raw mussel
he whiffled my hand. I stretched up
to stroke his neck and my fingers felt salt grains
in the fur. Wheeling above, gulls crackled
like bladder wrack. He turned towards
the water’s edge and seemed to beckon,
shaking out his weed-locked mane.
Waves ran over the herring flash of his hooves.
He bent down to snuffle his mouth in the water
and when he shook the drops from his lips
I knew his time had come.
(shortlisted in the Chagword Poetry Competition)
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor. Cinnamon Press published her second poetry collection, A Handful of Water, in 2013. Her first novel, Liar Dice, won the Cinnamon Press Novel Award, and her second, What the horses heard, was published in 2014. New poems have appeared in Prole, The Interpreter’s House and Lighthouse as well as Her Wings of Glass, the Exeter Poetry Festival anthology, the Battered Moons Competition pamphlet and The Broadsheet. Her website is www.rebeccagethin.wordpress.com
26 Friday Jun 2015
Tags
animals, britain, england, folklore, hare, poem, poetry, Rebecca Gethin, shapeshifting
The hare
Gusts flood the moorside
flattening grasses.
A tussock blinks,
veined ears
catch our footsteps,
its heartbeat alert.
Through split-lips
it tastes the cluttered air –
sheep, marsh,
buzzard’s shadow.
Wired to leap, back paws
out-pacing the front
leaving a press of stalks and blades,
a furred print in the grit –
a whiplash of thinking
itself into another form.
First published in the author’s own collection, A Handful of Water (Cinnamon Press)
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor. Cinnamon Press published her second poetry collection, A Handful of Water, in 2013. Her first novel, Liar Dice, won the Cinnamon Press Novel Award and her second, What the horses heard, was published in 2014. New poems have appeared in Prole, The Interpreter’s House and Lighthouse as well as Her Wings of Glass, the Exeter Poetry Festival anthology, the Battered Moons Competition pamphlet and The Broadsheet. Her website is rebeccagethin.wordpress.com.
