Serena Cooke has won numerous poetry competitions and has been published by Miracle E-Zine, Fur-Lined Ghettos, the Young Poets Network and performed her poem ‘Green Tears’ at the Cape Farewell SWITCH celebration evening. Serena was a Young Producer for both the Southbank Centre and the Poetry Society National Poetry Day Live 2014. She is also […]
anthology
Modern Classics
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Painting suggests James Joyce’s bizarre fixation with Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’. The Catcher in the Rye. Cricket player’s remains discovered in J.D. Salinger family bakery. Put Out More Flags. Modest Evelyn Waugh commemoration enrages author’s fans. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Tabby stuck on Desire replica […]
Darkness
there she was, incomprehensible, one of the six-inch guns; a little white smoke a tiny projectile Nothing could happen. a touch of insanity lugubrious drollery assuring me earnestly her letters were dying of fever the merry dance of death still and earthly overheated formless as if Nature herself tried to ward off intruders; death in […]
Beehive
The honey of promises: wings (to an infant, to the elderly, to the search for serendipity, to the idea of a home), bars (to a minor, to the convict, to the mother of five, to the father of a gun), flowers (to valentines, to vases, to the gravestones of the unknown, to the description of […]