For The Sender by Alex Woodard is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Through letters, prose and songwriting, Woodard reveals how he unravelled his own journey of growth and healing by trusting the process and listening to other voices telling their stories. The letters from Emily, Kim, Alison and Katelyn cover a myriad of feelings … Continue reading Review of For the Sender, Alex Woodard
He sits, patiently: a robin feathering his nest, waiting for the snow, to parade his red breast along the fence, in front of winter’s grandest show. Poem: © Kristiana Reed 2019 Between the Trees UK Between the Trees US Signed copies on Etsy Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay
The simple nostos after the work day ends: coat, scarf and car keys, the sun already setting, the sky a little more bruised than when you left it in the morning, the one lane of slow traffic and the blinkered hazards of roadworks, more roadworks, before a straight road into the country(ish), a village close … Continue reading Returning home
Imagine it’s the night before the end of the world as we know it: airstrikes are landing like lightning and fires are raging to the pace of frightened, broken hearts. Time is no longer waiting; acting before we’ve even opened our weary eyes to the damage we’ve been wreaking whilst pretending, like in this … Continue reading Look at what we’ve done
Originally published on Reedsy Discovery. Rain and Embers by Ali Nuri is one of the best poetry collections I have read in a while. His talent lifts each page and the words situated on it to tell a vivid story about identity, belonging and displacement as well as exploring love and what it’s like to live … Continue reading Review of Rain and Embers, Ali Nuri
I lie in bed and watch afternoon move into the evening - long shadows stretching beyond the hedge line in the fields behind the garden littered with autumn - bare branches shivering in the breeze, coaxing in the birds and their feathers to keep themselves warm in the frigid winter - still, hints of spring … Continue reading An afternoon in seasons
'BEING NORMAL' I submerged myself long enough for my chest to tighten and my heartbeat to quicken. It resounded off the porcelain sides and into my ears, throat and wrists. When I rose back out of the water, I opened my eyes to Dee sat cross legged on the toilet seat. I stared at her … Continue reading The Dee Diaries #6
A GIRL IS A SHAPESHIFTER is Higgins’ debut poetry collection - pieced together alone and across six months, it follows the voice of a young woman intent on loving herself fiercely and making a mark on the ever-widening world around her. From the opening poem, ‘nice to meet you’, I was in love with Higgins’ … Continue reading Review of A Girl is a Shapeshifter, Jasmine S. Higgins
There are snowdrops in the sky, drooping their tiny heads in the dark. Some call them stars but to me they are flowers; snowdrops blooming in winter, light blossoming even in death. Poem: © Kristiana Reed 2019 Between the Trees UK Between the Trees US Signed copies on Etsy Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
The earth opens its gnarly arms wide to receive the sun as it sinks in quiet and grace; bright orange and pink. The earth whispers along the horizon ‘kiss me quick’ and closes its soil heavy eyes to bathe in the unparalleled warmth of Light. Poem: © Kristiana Reed 2019 Between the Trees UK Between … Continue reading Kiss me quick
