by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
I have found salty Medusa locks laid to dry. I have found a colony of sea-tempered stones, a mermaid’s purse and a cuttlefish bone. I have found jellyfish big as size twelve boots, battle-weary barnacles, keyhole limpets and stillborn crabs, pale as blackthorn bloom....
by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
In the early morning rain, birds materialise from a blanket of fog like a magician’s trick. Grey shapes fly closer, red, yellow, and blue shimmer, sparkle, burst into the sunlight like tiny fireworks, become bright cardinals, tiny goldfinches, bold blue jays, before...
by Rachel Piercey | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 resources, Resources
All of the poems in Issue 9 are also available as free poem-posters to download, print and display. There are also free, downloadable teaching resources around the poems ‘Giant Wall’ by Cindy Faughnan, ‘A Gargantuan Book of Ginormousness’ by Barbara Bleiman, and ‘The...
by Rachel Piercey | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems
* Cindy Faughnan writes poems for children and adults when she’s not working on her middle-grade/YA novels. Her poems have appeared in Roar Kids Magazine, Dirigible Balloon, High Five, and Visual Verse. She completed an MFA in Writing for Children and Young...
by Rachel Piercey | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems
Here you come, Major Big Time, smooth-sailing ocean’s ceiling in your lumpy, bumpy skin, swaying hello to watchers: a living, breathing submarine tail-waving so-long like a colossal mermaid on vacation. You re-emerge in thundercrush rush, splashing and spraying your...
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