The bureau, the sideboard, the drop-leafed table stood on varnished floorboards like hardwood teeth in a jaw clamped shut. Aspirations had envisaged modernisation: central heating, flush doors, a f…

Lewisham 1973 Outside on the pavement by the bridge,£5 for the two – a bit ‘Victorian’,but sturdy, compact – a bit‘gentleman’s club’ but not grand.Like two Daleks, pleased with themselv…

Editor's Comments Welcome to Issue 34 of Allegro Poetry Magazine which sees a selection of poems both from poets who are new to Allegro an...

The prompt for this episode was rule-making and/or rule breaking, an idea which occurred to me after reading a sonnet sequence by Claire Cox and reading her account of how the poems were generated by ...

A Ghost Moth, at home The Ghost Furniture Catalogue is a putative anthology of poems about furniture, devised by Bill Herbert and Sophie Herxheimer. Our sideboards began a promising dialogue in 201…