poetry

So, you've successfully managed to avoid your social commitments to sit down and write something. After combing through it to check the grammar and that there isn't a trail of letters from when you fell asleep on your keyboard, what's the…

This is a really strong collection in terms of both literary and social merit.

Poet B. Diehl returns with his second collection.

A poetry book about horses that somehow ends up being about a lot more.

A look at Alex Behr's debut collection.

More poetry from the Vultures. Kirsty Niven steps up to the plate with three excellent efforts.

B. Diehl is our Poet of the Month for March 2017. Of course we had to bend his ear for an interview.

Who are you? Driven by musical and literary pursuits alike, I was drawn to poetry as a means of freedom and communication. Love, as Seen in a 1920s Setting I "Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds--" II…

Who are you? Lebanese-English writer. Poet. Novelist. Looking to stay drunk on words. Where can we read more from you? hannaabiakl.wordpress.com Outcast Always on the receiving end Of brutal beat downs And scathing attacks…

Who are you? Jerrod is the co-founder of Driftwood Press. His work has appeared in HOOT, The Fem, and many others. He lives in Florida. He hates sweating. It's an ongoing issue. Where else can we find you? driftwoodpress.net…

After the political and social disaster that was last year, I think 2017 is trying to be good to us by giving us plenty of new literature to stick our noses into. There are some big names hitting bookshelves over the next twelve months, as…

Who are you? A high school student who loves writing stories and poems. Some Days Some days I would hear footsteps closer to me, And when I woke up I saw that human again, controlling me. Some days another human was next to the…

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!” In Charles Bukowski’s book Women, there is a…

As the title implies, this is a collection of poems based on horror films. They cover classic films from Friday the 13th to contemporary films like The VVitch. Each of the poems is illustrated by Joel Amat Guell. “I don't know...maybe a…

It is apparent that Bob Dylan’s material is quite often not even remotely stunning, and on quite a number of occasions one could describe a given song as more confusing and insane than genius. He could well be, along with the likes of…

With my fingers crossed for a female President to join the growing numbers of women in power, it seems that female empowerment is on the rise. Unfortunately, plenty of richly talented women struggle through the life of being a writer…

We recently approached Vivek Shraya, author of She of the Mountains and even this page is white, and asked her to share her know-how. Thankfully, she agreed. Tell us a bit about yourself! I am an artist. I write, sing, take photos and…

In a world full of poets, you have to do a lot to stand out. Sure, sometimes you can get by on nothing more than the strength of your words, but when there's so much competition that it's harder than you first realise to get noticed.…

When you go to any bookstore, the poetry section is probably one of the smallest sections if they have one at all. The last time I went through a Barnes and Noble poetry selection, they had a few ancient Greek classics, Shakespeare, some…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGWGohIXiw There are many cliche views about students that persist in modern day British culture. That we drink too much, smoke too much and have little to offer the world apart from 2:2 degrees in Media…