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)

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)

Joan Michelson reads ‘Autumn Moment’ (Issue 88)

Saiqa Khushnood reads ‘Where is my name?’ (Issue 88)

In response to the hashtag started by Afghani women to protest against the custom that it is dishonourable to mention…

‘My Deafness, My Mother’s Deafness, My Grandad’s Deafness’ by John Barron (Issue 86)

My Deafness, My Mother’s Deafness, My Grandad’s Deafness Was felt inside that P.E. bag my mum stitched from old curtains.…

Miles Salter reads ‘An Anchor’ (Issue 88)

‘Queen’s Gambit Accepted’ by Katie Jukes (Issue 88)

Rosie Jackson reads ‘Because these days are dark’ (Issue 88)

Hard times (Issue 88)

‘Poetry in school,’ said Simon Armitage this September, ‘is one of those few occasions when you can experience language for…

Pennine Platform 88

Issue 88 now available. New work by 32 poets, from the Pennines to Greece. Order yours today.

Lucy Crispin reads ‘Looking for stuff the solicitor needs’ (Issue 87)