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Ivy

Let your heart emerge whole inside a crescent moon Dazzle stars with your wit and fortitude Grow like ivy scale extraordinary heights...

Ghosted

We met online he told me he’d emigrated last summer wanted to move somewhere with an ethereal view I was starstruck He’d wait for me A...

Paralysis

I didn’t imagine it after all she said Lying on her hospital bed A spinal injury Not from some catastrophic fall But her immune system...

Head Fog

Today I can’t So, I won’t Move a limb I’ll lay here Close my eyes Make believe like Wendy That I have left this world for a day Entered...

Leaky Pipes

My sister and I discuss Frequent trips to the toilet, perimenopause Children who are not really children anymore And what the future...

Tipping Point

Lean into me Be my truth Make a bed in my bones I promise to hold onto your words Drape them lightly across my body Like a satin sheet of...

#PoetsinthePandemic

An interview with Louise Peterkin @LouisePeterkin About: Louise Peterkin is a poet from Edinburgh. In 2016 she was a recipient of a New...

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