@leafepress.bsky.social
Leafe Press was launched at a reading in Nottingham in 2000 and has published a wide range of poetry. Editor: Alan Baker
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social's newest book, Forgetfulness, published by Shearsman, is officially out and he will be launching it tomorrow in London. To get you in the mood for it (and his waiting-for-you SP book), read this short interview published with Ian by the RLF.
www.rlf.org.uk/posts/my-wri...
"...a virtual reality version of a worldwide journey"
Steve Spence reviews “Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas:
www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...
Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social:
www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...
"Peter Hughes’s language sketches his movement from personal recollection and historical echoes to an embracing of the shifting textures of place..."
Ian Brinton reviews "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...
"it succeeds in creating a lyricism that synthesises all its disparate sources. In that respect at least, it's a remarkable achievement."
“Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky, pub. @pamenarpress.bsky.social:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...
"The sense of this work is much bigger than I am conveying here, more multi-faceted and fluid..."
Simon Collings reviews Linda Kemp's new Leafe Press book:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...
"The man on the phone doesn’t care
that I heard of your passing."
A poem for John Lucas by Troy Cabida:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/troy...
"I don’t look at the sea
and ask what it means. I’m not interested
in poetry. I never gave up
sugar in tea."
Three poems by Julie Lumsden:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/juli...
"In Martyn Crucefix’s volume there is a humble awareness of the passing of time which does not resolve itself into an easily achieved sense of regret."
Ian Brinton reviews Martin Crucefix:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...
"These texts are a humane response to this ravaged landscape and to the experience of living through a pandemic..."
Litter reviews "Black Fens Viral" by Frances Presley, pub. @ShearsmanBooks
www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...
Poems, prose meditations and photography on the subject of ecology and the climate crisis:
poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
"collapse into invention
tumbling chords and curling notes"
Poems from Tone Poem: Starlight and Stardust, by Robert Sheppard:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/robe...
"In the haunting world of Kelvin Corcoran’s language the names of the Chorus of Orphans are ‘whispered along the migrant routes.’"
Ian Brinton reviews "Under Tainaron" by Kelvin Corcoran:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...
"What I love about this work is the way in which a combined interest in art and science can suggest the interconnectedness of things and provide a rich foundation for poetry..."
Steve Spence reviews Elena Brake:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...
"Why did it run under the fence
and into the dog’s path
when it had a whole field behind it?"
Four poems by Biljana Scott:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/bilj...
"The collection is extremely powerful and leaves one with the question as David Caddy puts it ‘Can the land afford a farm’ or ‘has the farm already been bought’."
Litter reviews "Buying The Farm" by Elize O'toole, pub.@ShearsmanBooks :
www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/revi...
"Everything about the artist’s movements suggested that for her life wasn’t a dreamy happenstance..."
New poetry from Lila Matsumoto:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/lila...
New from Leafe Press: "The Moral Theology Of The Devil / Clothed With The Sun" by Linda Kemp". 38 pages. £9.00
"Seeded from Thomas Merton’s contemplations, this open-ended text invites the reader into participation in the creation of meaning."
www.leafepress.org/2025/08/the-...
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"Magnificent critiques of strange beliefs..."
Three new poems by Rupert Loydell:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/rupe...
"...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...
"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-...
"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-...
#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
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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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wrapped around the expensive machinery
...expect to be sacked"
New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/meli...
"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-...
"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...
"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...
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...
