The Perpetual Villa
“Il y a longtemps,” I repeated. “A long time ago.” My French felt clumsier every…
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Poetry: Kevin Higgins ‘Safe to Say’
Safe To Say How ghastly the day before yesterday was now everyone associated with it…
Getting Away
Margaret didn’t like Walls, so why had she agreed to go walking with him in…
Three Dystopian Poems
Somatotropism My lungs were out of helium, so I wandered out of my anti-memory cell…
Death by Drowning
The Death By Drowning Of Twenty Seven Migrants In The English Channel on Wednesday It…
Poetry: Ciarán O’Rourke
Dutch Masters An age away, the scented evergreens are still, a lucent wave commits to…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Spring For Lois P. Jones I The gentle discord of rainfall, its alternating static…
Gull
Try to envisage Odysseus, on stiff headland, on the Western Atlantic coast of Ireland, tilling…
Poetry: Carmen Palomino
Ace of Wands Fire & Desire And then, at the right time from the heat…
Icarius’s Daughter
Introductory Note “Icarius’s Daughter” celebrates Penelope, Odysseus’s wife and heroine of Homer’s Odyssey. In the…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
The Sacred Mundane 1 We might say with confidence that the world is a lovely…
The Zenith of Pessoa
In how many garrets and non-garrets of the world Are self-convinced geniuses at this moment…
Baudelaire as Phenomenologist
Three Poems by Charles Baudelaire IV – L’ALBATROS Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’equipage Prennent…
Poetry: Nicholas Battey
Leaf-ladder to the Sky Dusk drums down the harbour, Seagull sirens sound alarms, A quiet…
Poem: Questioning A Tank
Questioning a Tank Into the shocked, shucked shell of the hospital at Kunduz, which for…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
This Is Not a Well Made Poem The well made poem puts on its dicky…
Poetry: Peter Challis
Encumeada It was the very last shot on the roll Before the film disappeared…
A Net Depends On Its Knots
My arse was born before my head. I’m told I shouldn’t remember, but I do. …
Poetry: Stefano Schiavocampo
Dawn highlights the East while becoming towards it the tide patterns paper tigers on the…