Poem: Questioning A Tank
Questioning a Tank Into the shocked, shucked shell of the hospital at Kunduz, which for…
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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…
Poetry: Marc Di Saverio
ODE TO THE MOUNTAIN BROW (dedicated to Richard Greene) Cliff-topped at dawn in a euphoria…
Fiction: Train Station
Awarded one of the Tidiest Towns in the nation, the place was profoundly inept and…
Poetry: Christoph Hargreaves-Allen
KUNG FOOL ••••••••••••••• So you think you’re the Master? Meet the Master of Disaster: Bring…
The Daymaker
For my Aunt Josie. Mamma died today, last year, at this very hour. I took…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
We Lie after Holly McNish My one remaining friend, now I’ve plugged out my Mum,…
Poetry: Quincy Lehr
THE YELTSIN-CLINTON ERA, CENTRAL TIME ZONE The end of history will be a very sad…
Peter O’Neill’s Henry Street Arcade
Covid-19 has perhaps spelt a temporary death for, amongst many other things, flaneurship – that…
Automated Spirits
They’ve been protesting now for three weeks outside the closed factory. I have to walk…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
The Most Risk-Taking Poet In Ireland My split infinitives clearly the work of a man…
Beautiful Things
I see everything as if it were under a magnifying glass, so clear that it…
Poetry: Billy O Hanluain
Gold Fish I envy the gold fish the dignity of his fits and spasms mid…
The Communist’s Daughter
In the morning before waking, I dream of vast empty plains of flatland and red…
Head Shop
Tedium was tip tapping on the pane of Gibbo’s day, the hours slouching into another…
Poetry: Chay Bowes
Three Miles South of Carlow Town Walk with me. Don’t speak. Come to the place…
L’Homme et … la Merde!
For the purpose of perspective, I should like to carry out a short comparative study…