Contributors to morphrog18

Hannah Rogers is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Strathclyde. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The L.A. Review of Books, Small Orange Journal, The Boston Review, and Catch & Release. S.A. Leavesley is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and...

introducing morphrog18

morphrog 18 has poems by the following poets. Please click on the poet’s name or use the navigation bar at the top of the page. Naomi Wood Edward Lee SA Leavesley Robert Ford Frank McMahon Daniel Bennett ME Muir Hannah Rogers Michael Jackson Chris McDermott...
Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood

Closed. A Gift. A cut. Buried in the depth of you. Just enough to leave you in ruin But not so the eye can see. A fissure the exact shape and size As fire To rip through more than a canyon Of your furtive self. Like an imaginary friend The implicate re-writes Itself...
Edward Lee

Edward Lee

I FEAR Some days I fear I smell of suicide, my decaying thoughts reeking, seeping through my pores, staining the very air around me, invading the nostrils of passersby, companions, potential lovers, causing them, forcing them, to quicken their steps, make their...
SA Leavesley

SA Leavesley

(Un)watching   I watch through city shadows – patches of life snatched from window silhouettes. When a chair is empty, I wonder what the unwatched is doing further inside his square flat. The watched only exist for me in half-conversations of a semaphore without...
Robert Ford

Robert Ford

Snow falling on the ocean   See how from out of the folded arms of the cloud you have descended through, ushering the puzzled cows from the sodden slopes down towards to their byre, it comes spilling, a salt-shake of crystals, into the disappearing belt of visible...