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Martin Stannard - on Paul Violi’s poem, ‘EXACTA’

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 27d

"...by virtue of combining the poet’s invention and imagination and wit, these horses ignite the reader’s imagination."

Martin Stannard discusses a poem by Paul Violi:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/mart...

Martin Stannard on Paul Violi’s ‘EXACTA’ This little essay could easily be called “Why I Am Not A Scholar”, for in attempting to write about...

Rob Kiely from 'Psalms' pillows What would the moro-reflex in language be? It’s amazing how quickly living by the sea becomes impossible. Be...

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Sep 11

"The fact that things break is always a part of their function. I hope I have not caused pain. I wish I could feel it instead of you."

Two poems in the form of psalms from Rob Kiely:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/rob-...

Rob Kiely - Two Psalms

Ian Brinton - A talk given at the launch of Ric Hool’s Shook Up!

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Sound becomes sight and the haunting circles move outwards."

Ian Brinton discusses the new collection of poetry by Ric Hool:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/ian-...

Ian Brinton A talk given at the launch of Ric Hool’s latest publication from Red Squirrel Press, Shook Up! Stubbing the toe or a question of...

Mélisande Fitzsimons - Poems

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 30

#FF It’s National Lemon Juice Day. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “L” and “J”:
@lamplitmag.bsky.social
@jackanapespress.bsky.social
@laststanzapoetry.bsky.social
@jacklegpress.bsky.social
@leafepress.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️

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Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Good to see more of these wonderful Psalm poems from Alan Baker @leafepress.bsky.social and looking forward to a collection. These two in the current Tears in the Fence

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 18

"notice a mangled garden fork in the cylinder
wrapped around the expensive machinery
...expect to be sacked"

New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/meli...

Mélisande Fitzsimons Instructions on How to Process Tobacco (After Steve Spence) 1. Fags Rip the plastic wrapping the tobacco comes in ha...

Rob Kiely - Scenes from a Code of Conduct

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 18

"A tourist is a precondition of a certain kind of queue.

A tourist is a latent hostage.

A tourist is a set of mitochondrial clocks reconfigured."

New poem from Rob Kiely:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/rob-...

Rob Kiely Scenes from a Code of Conduct for Robyn When going on a long journey, it is customary to leave the cap of a pen behind and tak...

Horace, Odes 2.1 - translated by Aidan Everett

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Postumus, Postumus, how they slip away,
so fast, the years..."

And ode by the Roman poet, Horace, translated by Aidan Everett:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/hora...

Horace, tr. Aidan Everett Horace Odes 2.14 Postumus, Postumus, how they slip away, so fast, the years. No pious a...

Mike Ferguson - Three Prose Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 9

"The mayfly dance is communal if gender-skewed; the daylily bloom is beautiful then ugly."

Three prose-poems by Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social‬:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/mike...

Mike Ferguson Flying Machines Sustained in the sky like adventure, like dreams, like artifice, like rhythms. Lineage of the leaf and silk...

Lucia Daramus - Poem: "A Howl In A Movie"

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 5

how can I help you? can I give you
haloperidol and two tablets of lorazepam?
no, thanks, my cricket wants Russian Vodka."

A poem by Lucia Daramus:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/luci...

Lucia Daramus A Howl In A Movie A window. closed window. a few trees. outside walking trees. a fence talkative fence. It is dark, the middl...

Nick Power Perfect Halo I like shallow, you said – shallow is good – to exist for a thing that binds us – a poet’s portrait, a hairdo, a cri...

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 5

"I like shallow, you said – shallow is good –
to exist for a thing that binds us – a
poet’s portrait, a hairdo, a crime novel..."

Two poems by Nick Power @holynowhere.bsky.social‬:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/nick...

Nick Power - Two Poems

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 5

"the word haunted comes to mind as in relation to memory and re-creation of the past"

Steve Spence reviews "Concrete" by John Philips:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/revi...

Simon Collings - Two Prose Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Aug 5

"And Kernan does not ignore the paradox that must strike every reader of Schuyler, that is how someone with such evident behavioural issues wrote the poems that he did."

Martin Stannard reviews the new biography of James Schuyler, pub. @fsgbooks.bsky.social‬:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/revi...

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jul 19

"I could swear that I heard someone call, far away, beyond the fence among the darkening trees..."

Two new prose poems by Simon Collings:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/simo...

Simon Collings The Village of Eragny A dirt road on the right approaches the village, a pine partly obscuring the large house directly ahe...

C.J. Driscoll - The Period Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jul 19

"Listen to that birdsong! The God invented that!
The bloody God invented the dawn chorus,
period pains, sleepless nights, and period pains."

A poem by C.J. Driscoll:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/cj-d...

C.J. Driscoll THE PERIOD POEMS 1. You can’t plan for some periods. I’ve had my party period, my nutcase period, my down in the pit of d...

Maria Sledmere - Three Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jul 19

"I fell asleep later to the slightest rain
luminous like a film set
calculating implacable math"

Three new poems by Maria Sledmere:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/mari...

Maria Sledmere Sears Modern Homes Love cannot fake itself a family foremost, there must be glue, some ingénue to make the requisite colla...

Linda Kemp - from "The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun"

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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you're after good stuff, here is the good stuff.

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 30

"a lifetime
lush & desolate
mortification
swaying in the close
of being told
finally
it’s fine"

An extract from a new long poem by Linda Kemp:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/lind...

Linda Kemp From The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun * untether into idleness the silence of attach...

Maria Sledmere - Four Poems

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 30

"yous two are cosmos
okaying
twin notches turning at love’s bpm
we are allowed to be alive"

Four new poems by Maria Sledmere:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/mari...

Maria Sledmere Soul Cycle The perfect ovulation plays itself for winter’s listicles so much I wish you’d waltz my bones out of being fertil...

Linda Kemp - from "The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun"

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 30

"a lifetime
lush & desolate
mortification
swaying in the close
of being told
finally
it’s fine"

An extract from a new long poem by Linda Kemp:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/lind...

Linda Kemp From The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun * untether into idleness the silence of attach...

Steve Spence - Three Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 23

"Here we have the song of the ocean
& it’s all down to bubbles."

Three new poems by Steve Spence:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/stev...

Steve Spence Creating a Swell Here we have the song of the ocean & it’s all down to bubbles. A wave isn’t really a tangible object but...

Horace - Odes 1.20 and 3.36

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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 23

"A cheap and spicy little Sabine wine
is all you’ll get to drink tonight at mine,
in modest bucketfuls."

Horace's "Odes", translated from the Latin by Aidan Everett:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/hora...

Horace, translated by Aidan Everett Horace, Odes 1.20 A cheap and spicy little Sabine wine is all you’ll get to drink tonight at mine, in ...

Tristan Moss - Four Poems

Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · Jun 23

"it never works as well
when we’re forced to ask
someone else to scratch
an itch"

Four poems by @tristan-moss.bsky.social‬:

www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/tris...

Tristan Moss curiosity a plough blade starts off a plough blade so that it might plough to the surface another plough blade freedom the ...