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Happy birthday to the one & only #SiouxsieSioux what are your favourite Banshees tracks, Creatures songs and solo tracks?

So its 3 June already, no way Where did you go to May? So better late than never here's some diamonds to discover with the (irrefutable, inimitable) Brand spanking new TIH Poem-of-the-day (The poems are much better than that, promise)

Poem-a-day 1 'because long ago, a butterfly stuck stamp-like to the oily nectar of mother’s still life, a vase of peonies still wet from the brush. The fritillary gasped' from the achingly beautiful 'I rise to higher altitudes' by Hélène Demetriades theinterpretershouse.org/demetriades-83

So honoured to be published in this wonderful magazine x

Poem-a-day 2 'She is a warm, soft, and fuzzy mammal with a mood disorder. She is well-documented for her hubris. She wears lipstick the shade of haughty seduction. Her smile is a wine stain' 'Methods for exorcism' by Miranda Barnes theinterpretershouse.org/mbarnes-83

Poem-a-day 3 'Christ, shattered by comfort and ire, that thrawn spear on the enter key thrust daily, hourly into his side.' The powerful 'Of the wounds', one of two poems by Amy Jo Philip theinterpretershouse.org/philip-83

Poem-a-day 4 'She, who grasped at passion, only to eat dirt like a plant on stone! I loved you passionately. I buried myself in the sky' 'I am late for my appointment' one of two Marina Tsvetaeva poems, exquisitely translated by Belinda Cooke theinterpretershouse.org/tsvetaeva-83

Poem-a-day 5 'The laugh track is banned from funerals, libraries, baptisms and awards ceremonies' 'Do you know what it’s like to be good at just one thing?' Wit, pathos - lines from 'In defense of the laugh track' karipindoria. theinterpretershouse.org/pindoria-83

NYC on Monday! Little tribute to the late, great John Cazale here, from Hollywood or Home—Massachusetts boy who cut his teeth in New York theatre and then… The rest is history. Brief, but staggeringly beautiful, history.

Poem-a-day 6 is from our featured poet this issue, the superb Kate Hendry "What Scaredy Kate Does" is desert the dangerous thing — her body. Dumps it on the top deck of the 29 but her husband cycles to the depot, claims it back from lost property. theinterpretershouse.org/hendry-83

Poem-a-day 7 "The shadow line of emptiness between the halves—a winding road to nowhere. Pebbles like open mouths, scratched with teeth, the hunger of broken things." Striking imagery in the brilliant "Broken Pebbles" by Corinna Board theinterpretershouse.org/board-83

Poem-a-day 8 "5ml" from the always excellent Michael Conley "The colour of the medicine is variable: sometimes neon pink, sometimes yellow, sometimes opalescent, but the taste is always the same, bitter and comforting, like a childhood sick day." theinterpretershouse.org/conley-83

Poem-a-day 9 "or an open palm bartering warmth in rations — even my voice has firmed to a chiselled core of consonants —this mild hour in which I read you Elmer’s fate" From the beautiful "Patchwork" by Warren Mortimer Warren Mortimer theinterpretershouse.org/mortimer-83

Poem-a-day 10 "Memories of where you put your tongue in a dream hotel, the rooms all accessed through chance: tiny doors that close and open like eyelashes in the rain." From the delicately erotic "The Last Time" by Michael Askew. theinterpretershouse.org/askew-83

Warren Mortimer theinterpretershouse So true - one of the absolute best

Poem-a-day 11 "A boy flies a dinosaur balloon and the dogs scrap on. If she’d look out   she’d see me sat on the bench beneath where the grass gleams like squid ink." From "Looking through a window at dusk" One of two fabulous poems by Zoë Green theinterpretershouse.org/green-83

Poem-a-day 12 "When I confronted him about the [flytrap] with my [ficus], he said [silence] & held my [hope] between his [lilies]. He [provoked] the [tornado]" From Bethany Jarmul innovative "Mad Libs in the Botanical Garden after a Breakup" theinterpretershouse.org/jarmul-83

Poem-a-day 13 "To be a big secret I have to keep myself small and I have tried. Outside of his bed I am bodiless — a wispy ghost that won’t touch your living world." From the powerful "The Good Mistress" by Zoe R. theinterpretershouse.org/r-83

Poem-a-day 14 "The mugshot was in care as a child. When I was a child my parents would abandon the house for days as if warned that a hurricane was approaching." "Self-portrait with a Police Mugshot" Great stuff from Jacob Mckibbin theinterpretershouse.org/mckibbin-83

It's-a-story-today-15 "It is the rare seventh grade boy who worries about the morning after. Noah could not absorb the events of ‘Oh, What a Night!’ without imagining the aftermath." What a joyous and warm story - "Drum Solos" by Angela Townsend theinterpretershouse.org/townsend-83