Satisfying

A sensitive description is worth much. This poem is pure and satisfying.

Roger Desy’s “Deer”

Evocative

Something so evocative and eloquent as this is rare and uncompromising.

Monica Berlin’s “This Slow Rise”

Place

Sometimes a poem just takes you there. Or you take it there with your attentive reading of it.

Malaika King Albrecht’s “Beyond the Clover Meadow”

Seeking

This poem of seeking is filled with eloquence and temperance.

Christina Matthews’ “Salmon”

Inside

To be inside a poem like this. To be immersed in its sounds and incidents…

James Arthur’s “In Praise of Noise”

Depth

Depth and loveliness in one remarkable poem.

Daniel Patrick Sheehan’s “Birdsong”

Distance

A description of distance that’s truly compelling.

Katie Ford’s “[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]“

Grace

This has such measured grace, such freedom to it.

W.F. Lantry’s “Quatorze Juillet”

Mesmerised

We are mesmerised and continue to be. We don’t know why. But here it is.

John Sibley Williams’”Abandoned”

Strange Hold

Some poems have a strange hold on you. They neither chase you nor follow you but let you remember them by their sheer memorable light.

Matthew Siegel’s “Overlooking the City”