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Britain just hates everyone who isn’t British. They hate them at sports, they hate them at Eurovision. Maybe they’re just jealous; everyone else has better weather, better public transport, better Eurovision entries. It’s not that they hate the Irish less, they just stopped noticing Irish people when they found someone…

Reincarnation is to me a poem that belongs in the 21st century. Aren’t we all tired of 21st century life, all the working for nothing. A grinding pecking order of management, middle management, supervisors. Complaints, customer service. When did you ever hear of a worried bullfrog? I could read a…

Ian Irwin – ‘suffer little children’ Benson Bobrick – ‘Meditation on the Rings’ Freya Buckley – ‘Cut’ Simon Read – ‘Freight 93’ I don’t like to say that I have favourite poems, but perhaps I could say that I have favourite phrases that appear in poems. Ian Irwin’s line ‘My…

NEW POEMS: Matthew Duggan – ‘The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be’ Clare Manicom – ‘Holy Places’ Mark Mansfield – ‘The Odds’ Alex Rourke – ‘Judgement’ Sometimes. when I read a poem, it’s about that one line that sticks in your head. Matthew Duggan‘s poem ‘The Future Isn’t What…

Marble is in the process of moving to an online platform. All poems will be archived on the site for £2 a month to access. Currently, Marble is updating the backlog of poems from 2018-2021, but some poems are now accessible online for users with a membership. Like so many…

Theme for October: RELIGION This month’s theme for submissions is Religion. Whether you believe in formal religion, or just have a loose concept of belief, or maybe you just like old buildings, somewhere, somehow, religion is in your life, and you probably have a poem about it. (Marble previously ran…

4 poems on any theme to editor@marblepoetry.com To be published late spring