Jonathan Van-Tam has a way with metaphors. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer’s clear football analogies for tackling Covid-19 are a…
Pennine Platform 89
Sixty pages of poetic perspective from the UK and beyond. Order yours today.
Poems and Politics (Issue 89)
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)
‘The Notebook’ by Clive Watkins (Issue 87)
It is in the end as if the morning light streamed through him where he sits at the half-open window,…
‘Near and Far’ by Jeanette Hattersley (Issue 87)
There is still grandeur; the curve of stone steps, the long, lazy windows overlooking the street where hens peck at…
‘Boustrophedon’ by Aidan Everett (Issue 87)
Does the ploughman, reaching the east of his furrow, lift up the plough and return it to the west to…
Ken Gambles reads ‘Pit Pony’ (Issue 87)
Jo Haslam reads ‘Lancashire’ (Issue 86)
‘Windows is shutting down’ (Issue 87)
At some stage in their careers most serious poets attend writing workshops. These events differ widely. Some are closed shops;…
Pennine Platform 87
Issue 87 now available. 56 new poems by 32 poets, from the Pennines to Australia. Order yours today.
