Poetry: James Harpur
Christmas Snow Never came that year, and yet It came in other ways, remembering the…
Browsing: Poetry
Poetry – Edward Clarke
Assembly One morning during the first week of Advent, _ When I was possessed, After…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
Our Posh Liberal Friends for Susan Whenever I show them the Future, they refuse it;…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
Presidential When you finish reading this poem, you’ll remember only the Black Forest Gateaux I…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
Tribute Acts Each witch hunt is a tribute act to the last. There is always…
Poetry – Luke Stromberg
The First Obscenity Before we turned our eyes from nudity, Or banished certain words, death…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
The Joke after Walter Benjamin A barrel of industrial waste poured into a suit donated…
Poetry: Ernest Hilbert
Spolia Opima Models, slender and famished as cheetahs, Shed their imperial haute couture— Already in…
Poetry: Mischa Willett
Medea’s Hymn from Ovid O guardian of the dark, keeper of creeping shadows, o night…
Homage to Henry Kissinger
When Henry Kissinger again fails to die Another tree in the Central Highlands loses all…
Poetry – Haley Hodges
Make of me, too, a microcosm Make of me, too, a microcosm— Merger, marry, manifest…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
After Recent Unfortunate Results Next election onwards, there’ll be a second vote for those who…
Poetry – Oliver Tickell
Five Poems trampled, rain-sodden the leaves brown, green, yellow and a crimson gilded wings flapping…
SIDE EFFECT
SIDE EFFECT So few cars on our Manhattan street Pigeons leaving nests that swirl between…
The Musical Duel of Apollo and Pan
Pan’s Song Your rule has lapsed Apollo, all narrative is dead, You said true form…
Poetry: Alex Winter
AREOPAGITE The cloud moves, low, across the landscape, leaving a slick of rainwater on the…
Poetry – Fintan O’Higgins
Natural History Museum, Dublin Necrophorus investigator bears The dead and follows in their footsteps. Moths,…
Poems for Holy Week
Poetry editor Edward Clarke selects poems from Paul Curran, Billy O Hanluain, Haley Hodges Schmid,…
Poetry – Radu Vancu
Master of children’s small fingers & of the indestructible hair of girls & of the…
Prescription: Isolation
Prescription: Isolation No man is an island? Go to your room. Sweat for three days…