Kissing Stars Bare feet, buried in the warm softness of sand Particles spread out across the way like a galaxy of shining motes...

About Zoe Brooks: Zoe Brooks worked with disadvantaged communities in London and East Oxford before returning to her native...

Blank pages wait for me to fill them with fragments of uncountable words Blank pages wait for my pen to run around them I feel that they...

The image of you being warned and shot by two cops sinks and drowns in my brain; sometimes your ghost baby eyes open, question me - "When...

What you don’t realise, Madame Laurent declares Is that every sixteen-year-old is beautiful. The boys titter, looking around the class. A...

Solitudinal I want to be alone / floating free / from the universal / away from the glare / of the sun / and spotlight...

Connate Our seaside, soft brine lapping, rushing our curves, our keels and bows. Sun froths those tides, warms our foam; tides pour dark...

Nikki is managing editor of streetcake magazine and also runs the streetcake writing prize and MumWrite. She has a chapbook and...

Eating Fried Chicken with Ballerinas in Central Park Sitting in the west side of Central Park, three ballerinas force-feeding me fried...

Read 'You told me what is essential...' from Johnathan Minton, which is part of a longer work 'Letters'.