Christina the Astonishing Sai Murray

Christina the Astonishing Sai MurraySaint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She died aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of sinful humanity. This was the first of many mad, disobedient exploits in her long and remarkable life. Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders retell through their own poems as well as brief extracts from medieval religious writers Christinas story as a womans

shtetl light

As befits the slippery connections between inner and outer worlds

Jane Roberts

Jane Aldous

These poems also hazard an eye at the global weather and find a world in turmoil

Out of other stories

curated by Pandora and translated by UK-based poets Kim Moore

favourite places and views and how Scotland has shaped them and their careers

interlaced language draws clear connections

David Calcutt

which - said Marilyn Hacker - "represents much of what I admire in contemporary American poetry

Rosa Faúndez