Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
A Girls and Other Poems- Anne Bevan
A Girl There was a girl
Who lived in a glass mind
And carried her emotions
From room to room
In a brown suitcase.
Blackbirds pecked at her
Through see-through walls,
Hissing...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Bob Beagrie
Chiromancy ‘The great Sage as high as Heaven visited here.’
Wu Cheng'en – Journey to the West, 1592 High staggered moorland crossroads
too few trees, the big wide...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Nadia Wolnisty
Nadia Wolnisty's tribute to the impressionist Kay Sage
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Dana St Mary
the flag keeper he walks slowly to the place
with that solemnity
that cadavers bring, and
leans the heavy ladder
on the mast-like pole. a tilted head and
gooseflesh show
that today...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Marcy Clarke
SUET, SUNFLOWERS AND HAY Winter is at our gate
and a dozen crows, like trespassing bandits,
raid our slumbering garden The sun is a hard shadow bleaching bony...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Deborah Harvey
Understorey Your father in his fawn windcheater
names the song of each bird we hear
points out fox holes and fungi,
pulls to one side an elder branch
explains...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
New Surrealism:Â The new revolution?
We must not hesitate to bewilder sensation’. Andre Breton ‘
If we say, ‘how does one write surrealist poetry,’ we are asking the wrong question? ...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Caron Freeborn
Red plums I bit into the unnoted plum, expecting sharp
disappointment or at best, tolerable
near-sweetness. My thumb
left an indent which gave me some hope -
bruised fruit...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Maxine Rose Munro
The wild time
>
It took me years to find others didn't seemusic like me - as a space to enter, in whichto move between/with colours...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Mark Tarren
In Memoriam Here lies his naked body,
like a baroque Christ. Long pale arms at his side,
it is not Shakespeare’s Adonis. Nor is it the carved strength
of Achilles
that...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Melissa Mulvihill
Fata Morgana I am lost on the Lake
deliberately at sea
tossing about in moody waves
raging in storms of fictive selves
struggling for a
critical angle ebbing in the middle...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Anne Bevan’s first collection of poems- Reviewed
TESTAMENT ANNE ELIZABETH BEVAN ISBN 978-1-910855-82-9 £10.00 Lapwing Publications, Belfast. Testament, Cork based poet Anne Bevan’s first collection of poems, has already received praise from reviewers:
Anne’s poetry gets straight...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Afternoon Drinking in the Jolly Butchers, by Rachel Coventry- Reviewed
Afternoon drinking in The Jolly Butchers feels like being invited to join in a casual conversation with a group you found yourself sitting near to...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
David Butler Reviews Maurice Devitt’s, Growing Up in Colour
Growing Up in Colour is dedicated to the memories of the poet’s parents, Brian Devitt (1920-1971) and Pauline Devitt (née Kennan) (1927-2014).
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
The Senses in Literature -Ruth Ennis
In creative writing, the author caters to the appeal of the targeted readers. As every audience is as diverse and complex as the people...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Consciousness and Control – Room Little Darker by June Caldwell-reviewed
Brian Kirk is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Dublin. His children’s novel The Rising Son was published in December 2015. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. His first poetry collection After The Fall was published by Salmon Poetry in 2017. He blogs at www.briankirkwriter.com.
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Pauline Flynn
INTERLUDE At twilight by a low stone wall,
a small boy in pyjamas holds a glass box
full of fireflies, points to his father
swinging a net in...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Cathy Bryant
Unasked, He Teaches Me Photography Keep your horizons level, he says.
And not in the middle. Upper third
or lower.
But I don't want a postcard, nor art.
I...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Susan Castillo Street
TEST MATCH > We watch the cricket.
Clueless American, British man.
Tomay-to Tomah-to doesn’t even come close.
I blink at the screen, hesitate
but think, what the heck, ask
sorry, but,...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Harold Ackerman
Three Poems Starting with 'W' Written on a Torn Package for Eric and Chris That time I stepped to the blackboard
to draw a shape with chalk as...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Jean Taylor
Death’s Signature Maybe I should have known, it rained so hard,
that you had gone. Maybe I should have known
that yellow tulips spilling from the vase
reveal...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Kieran Egan
Cultural Confusions A deserted diner off the highway;
watched by the dark-haired, heavy waitress
I ate alone and uncomfortable.
Something wrong with her right eye
so craning round to...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Bind by Christine Murray- Reviewed
Christine Murray uses minimal, impressionistic language to convey images from the natural world.Â
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry- Megan Stratford
buried she’s just where you said i’d find her
half-way buried
underneath the pendulous trapeze
to hang off of on afternoons that couldn’t move days like
this one when...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry – John Short
AQUARIUM I dreamed of an aquarium
fixed into my back
a miniature box
with tetras and an angel fish,
its glass sunk deep
instead of memories,
I had to ask each...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Fealty by Ricky Ray- Reviewed
The book’s appeal to readers should be quite broad since Ray’s verse is accessible and intelligible
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage by Nadia Wolnisty
To touch someone well is difficult. Saying, Here, take my hand requires courage I simply do not have. I am a coward. Physical touch...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Jerusalem – fiction by Kate Ennals
Propped up against goose down pillows, her face is ravaged and pallid, strung together with skeletal bone. In one hand is a lit cigarette....
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
True Places – fiction by Frances Browner
Veronica watched the snowflakes drift onto the grass, in a thin white gauze. April was always a tease; just when you thought winter was...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
The Sighting – fiction by Yong Takahashi
I see you again – walking towards me – with your confident stride. I notice your closely-shaven beard, white, button-down shirt, and neatly-pressed slacks....
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Lemons- Carla Scarano D’Antonio
On Thursday I went to the supermarket and did my usual round: salad, fruit, vegetables. While I was selecting the oranges a net bag...
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry from a Maxine Rose Munro
Took the moon I reached out and took the moon
in my hand. I know others think
she's still there in the blueblack
sky lighting the world like...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Sylvie of the Stone Stoop and other poems by Melissa Mullvihill
Sylvie of the Stone Stoop I talk with Sylvie of the stone stoop
as her hand digs
around in the Cheetos bag for crumbs
and her bare feet...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Brenda Read-Brown’s ‘Like/Love’ – Reviewed
Brenda Read-Brown: Like Love
V Press
ISBN: 9781999844431
Launch date: 7 th November, 2018. Brenda Read-Brown’s biographical notes struck a chord with me, as I also changed direction
after...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Poetry from D.J Tyrer
Babysitter
>
Angry return home
Classic misunderstanding
Parents shout and scream
Weren’t lit’rally meant to sit
Squash their children into paste
>
Bits
>
I’m British around the Americans
American around the Brits
Neither one nor...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Motherhood by Sheila Heti – Reviewed
Motherhood by Sheila Heti London, Harvill Secker 2018 ISBN 9781846558375 £ 14.99 (paperback) ‘I’m protecting onto you, coins, the wisdom of the universe’ Motherhood A meditation on womanhood and motherhood...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
We’ll Catch the Next One: Poetry D.A. Lucas
We’ll Catch the Next One: a ghost and a gun
meet again to talk
before catching their trains
away to some oblivion. the gun cackles out the wide
open hole...
Issue 36 | December 2018 |
Prose Poetry- Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
The Bangle In the shop window, the bangle shone, its spangled beauty called to me. You saw your chance, you with your deep pockets. On...
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