Pennine Platform 91
Sixty pages of poetic inspiration and more between the lines. Order yours today.
Char March reads ‘Dislocating the Moon’ (Issue 91)
Poets versus Dictators (Issue 91)
The daily norms which two years ago most people took for granted have mutated yet again. Most starkly for Ukrainians…
After a long lockdown wait…
Due to a positive Covid test the Pennine Platform ‘Love the Words’ scheduled for this Tuesday – 3rd May has had to…
D A Prince reads ‘Artist’s impression’ (Issue 90)
Natural-Sounding Speech (Issue 90)
What is natural-sounding speech, and why is it so valued? Raymond Williams’ discussion of ‘nature’ in his Keywords was fraught…
Regina Weinert reads ‘Helping you decide’ (Issue 90)
Jean Stevens reads ‘Pye Black Box’ (Issue 90)
Mike Lewis-Beck reads ‘Fear of Flying’s’ (Issue 90)
Juliet Fossey reads ‘Visiting the Poet’ (Issue 89)
Juliet Antill reads ‘De-lousing my six year-old’ (Issue 89)
Yvie Holder reads ‘A Guide for Emigrants, 1950’ (Issue 89)
Beth Booth reads ‘Trappings’ (Issue 89)
Music composed and performed by Will Truby.
William Bonar reads ‘Rebound’ (Issue 89)
William Bonar (1953-2021) was an established and admired contributor to Scottish poetry. https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/william-bonar/
Liz Almond reads ‘Azotea Behaviour’ (Issue 89)
Aidan Everett reads ‘Denys the Areopagite Turns in his Grave’ (Issue 89)
Poems and Politics (Issue 89)
Jonathan Van-Tam has a way with metaphors. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer’s clear football analogies for tackling Covid-19 are a…
Alison Campbell reads ‘cleft lip, cleft palate and club foot’ (Issue 88)
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