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A haven for new poetry and short fiction. Poetry and fiction journal edited by Elizabeth Gibson (https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethGibsonWriterPoet)

10/08/2021

"...all I could ever need for fullness again is this sea and sky,
these hills of foxglove and gorse, and long Galician granaries,
their stone frames warming lizards and cats..."

This week, Foxglove Editor, Elizabeth Gibson, shares one of her favourite places: Carnota, Galicia 🐚

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/carnota-elizabeth-gibson

We are in a glass dome of summer – pick us up and shake us, and pollen-dust will swirl around us. The delirious strip of sea is the other side of our zip: we curve and arc into each other. L…

03/08/2021

Foxglove is open for submissions until Sunday 3rd October 2021! 🌺 Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please don't feel that you have to wait until the deadline. Everybody is welcome, but I would especially love to hear from my fellow q***r writers. Full submission guidelines are below. I can't wait to read your work! Thank you and good luck - Elizabeth 😊

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03/08/2021

"...Tentative intense
Strikes brushwood bark-bole
Bounces lemon curd..."

This week's poem is "Passing Colours" by Martin Potter 🚂

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/passing-colours-martin-potter

Rail journey Thickset windows fix Fleeting landscape green-chill Outside carriage warmth A winter sun’s Tentative intense Strikes brushwood bark-bole Bounces lemon curd Off the…

03/08/2021

"...winter blurred my footsteps, tiny birds took
refuge in bushes and I, bundled up in wools and
layered cotton, pondered on the coldness..."

James G. Piatt reflects on life's journey in "I Have Walked This Path Before" 🌲

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/i-have-walked-this-path-before-james-g-piatt

I am peering through raindrops, which are washing away my memories watching the past fade as I walk along an old path I have walked on many times before. I have walked this path befor…

03/08/2021

"...The illusion of softness
In the graceful curving hill-scapes,
Rust carpets of oak leaves..."

Enjoy a moment in nature, with "Baskett Slough III" by Marc Janssen 🍂

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/baskett-slough-iii-marc-janssen

The milk sun combs uncombed fields While An atonal chorus of geese concert invisibly directly overhead. All around The illusion of softness In the graceful curving hill-scapes, Rust c…

16/07/2021

"...pale mauve or streaked,
bear stripes of war
from battle through harsh undergrowth..."

Enjoy "Sunlight" by Stephen Kingsnorth 🌷

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/sunlight-stephen-kingsnorth

The bulbs above – their filaments, the broken joints of spider legs – hang lazy, washing on the line, a sad parade unheeded now, awaiting switch of energy, electricity, spark gen…

28/06/2021

"...I rotate my neck as I do just before speech
gasp as I rise head-first to my element
a fish of the air..."

Enjoy "A Dream of Flying Over My Childhood Home" by Isabel Greenslade ✨

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/a-dream-of-flying-over-my-childhood-home-isabel-greenslade

I open out my skull bones like leaves my head a white hard dome …

16/06/2021

"...a promise realised before.
Those languorous, drawn heady days
of elderflower, drone buzzy gnats..."

This week's poem is "Preserved" by Stephen Kingsnorth ☀️

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/06/16/preserved-stephen-kingsnorth

I dusted coal soot from the sill and came across the brittle bee, stuck, desiccated, frosted pane. And yet, with yoghurt, muesli dish, – a bowl of porridge not amiss – I plunged …

06/06/2021

"...a sea came from afar
nudged the pebbles until they rolled.
We walked. Left a memory..."

This week's poem is "The prints you laid" by Gareth Culshaw 🐾

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/the-prints-you-laid-gareth-culshaw

The coast elbowed the land a sea came from afar nudged the pebbles until they rolled. We walked. Left a memory in the road. I unclipped the lead from my hand, and you cut away …

31/05/2021

"...A van Gogh of sunflowers
A peal
A heart..."

This week's poem is "A Chapel of Sunflowers" by Marc Janssen 🌻

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/a-chapel-of-sunflowers-marc-janssen

Driving out west of town There is a field, maybe part of an abandoned farm, Filled with sunflowers. There should be a name for a group of sunflowers, Rank on jumble they stand Lion-faced the…

25/05/2021

"...My mind drills through years
to rain, ocean, storm.
Outside the window, a child wails..."

This week's poem is "Ghosts in the Nursery" by Kerry Ryan 🌧

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/ghosts-in-the-nursery-kerry-ryan

Will you help me? My son says. Always, I reply, as I always do. He looks up from his Lego. What if one day you say no? (To play what ifs is his favourite). I laugh. That’ll never happen. He …

25/05/2021

"...The first rests on yellow petals
the second fluttering
over blackberries ripening..."

Enjoy "White Butterflies" by Andy Eycott 🌻

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/white-butterflies-andy-eycott

White butterflies crisp as a new playing cards, hinged wings guitar picks strumming. The first rests on yellow petals the second fluttering over blackberries ripening, both blown into…

04/05/2021

"...gloss green encased shaping egg
its sticky thimble cup
unclasps to earth..."

This week's poem is "oakfruit" by Martin Potter ✨

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/oakfruit-martin-potter

an oak’s robustness all reduced to essence nutwise gloss green encased shaping egg its sticky thimble cup unclasps to earth the acorn Martin Potter ( is a poet and academic, and his p…

01/05/2021

"...we turned and stumbled into a yard
ringed by trees, their fruit greener than leaves,
huge, monstrous almost. But we had to pick them..."

This week's poem is "El Dorado" by Ted Mc Carthy 🍏

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/el-dorado-ted-mc-carthy

“The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.” – Rubicon by Tom Holland Arid – it took t…

01/05/2021

"...You’ll burn the wick whilst I pace alongside the festive scent.
Autumnal colours make it smaller everyday.
Maybe you’ll find the answer at the bottom of the jar..."

Enjoy "Patchwork Candle" by Cat Caie 🕯

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/patchwork-candle-cat-caie

I used up all my candles, collected all the leftover wax. My big Orange, Cinnamon and Clove came to an end. Rusty flames, heat in my cheeks, an envelope-seal kissed shut. I bought you…

28/04/2021

"...It’s long dead, whatever it was,
probably dead when I was at home
looking it up in the bird book..."

A fleeting encounter in "Souvenir" by Isabel Greenslade 🐦

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/souvenir-isabel-greenslade

I left the car on the cliff top, went looking for a toilet, found a bird. There used to be a coal mine under here – that’s what the guidebook said, and the mark on the map. It’s…

15/04/2021

"...11pm. earth gone
grey in salty
shades of orange..."

Enjoy "Flowers and night-time flowers" by DS Maolalai 🌼

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/04/04/flowers-and-night-time-flowers-ds-maolalai

camden. the bus flipped like a swing in bad weather with somebody kicking their heels. 11pm. earth gone grey in salty shades of orange. the shops all closed, bars curled open, like flowers g…

06/04/2021

Please consider nominating Foxglove for Best Magazine in the Saboteur Awards! Deadline is tomorrow (Wednesday), noon UK time 😊

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Welcome to the Saboteur Awards 2021 voting form! Please note there is a minimum of 3 nominations per person to make sure your vote counts (i.e. you'll need to make 1 nomination in 3 categories). You are of course welcome to vote in as many categories as you'd like. We've changed the layout of the fo...

06/04/2021

"Soft haze hangs
over trees, over road,
view losing focus..."

Enjoy "Haze" by Neil Fulwood 🌿

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/haze-neil-fulwood

Soft haze hangs over trees, over road, view losing focus near broken gate at field’s edge, rich man’s house vaguely outlined a half mile away. The rumble that trembles teacup could be anythi…

27/03/2021

"...We said she was special,
unique, joked she’d make
a superb criminal..."

This week's poem is "Traces" by Lorraine Carey 🔑

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/traces-lorraine-carey

I have a friend without fingerprints. She worked in the corner shop and the fact that her tips lacked those delicate swirls only came to light, when takings didn’t tally with receipts…

18/03/2021

"...Our 27th Christmas; it will be the last before we reach our new home.

Molly is unwell, but she is our talisman; she must crack the final egg. A shimmering, golden tree emerges, capped with a crown of sparkling stars..."

This week's short story is "Beyond the Tree Line" by Hugh Cartwright ✨

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/beyond-the-tree-line-hugh-cartwright

It’s our first Christmas adrift in the stars. And Molly’s first egg. “Can I break it now?” “Be gentle.” Molly’s just four, the youngest of our tiny community. She taps the egg with fierce co…

11/03/2021

"...here on the sofa, curling
with me around tea.
you are hot as a log..."

This week's poem is "Hot as a log" by DS Maolalai ☕️

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/hot-as-a-log-ds-maolalai

cold as logs in water, a wet and winter evening. a rain which cracks the windows, sounds like logs in burning hearths, and you here on the sofa, curling with me around tea. you are hot as a …

06/03/2021

"...I pull up, golden hour drips through,
glazes your ornaments. Bittersweet.
The white rabbit clock..."

This week's poem is "Interior design for fools" by Demi Lloyd ☀️

https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/interior-design-for-fools-demi-lloyd

Come and pick up your stuff by Thursday or I’ll take it to the tip. The voicemail repeats, clanks round eardrums I pull up, golden hour drips through, glazes your ornaments. Bitterswe…

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