Ballad of Lucy Kryton
Ballad of Lucy Kryton “There will not be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime”,…
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Ecstasy of Truth Finally Spoken
Kevin Higgins’s sixth poetry collection under the sardonic title Ecstatic starts with a dedication to…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Kyrie Rotten fruit, rotten root. Hands up Don’t shoot. Kyrie eleison. By the waters of…
And the Flesh was Made Word
Through Fernando Pessoa the flesh was made word. Reminiscent of the renowned Chinese painter Wu…
The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot
The prize painting in the National Gallery of Ireland is, without a doubt, Caravaggio’s depiction…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Poems in the Manner of the Devil After Alexandar Ristović (1933-1994) If you can’t chew…
Into the River
I can barely make out Richard´s handwriting on the piece of torn paper. “Second left”…
Poetry: Lucinda Kowol
Mowing How dare you go, leaving me alone to do the mowing? You used…
The Perpetual Villa
“Il y a longtemps,” I repeated. “A long time ago.” My French felt clumsier every…
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…