The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot
The prize painting in the National Gallery of Ireland is, without a doubt, Caravaggio’s depiction…
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Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Poems in the Manner of the Devil After Alexandar Ristović (1933-1994) If you can’t chew…
Poetry: Lucinda Kowol
Mowing How dare you go, leaving me alone to do the mowing? You used…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins ‘Safe to Say’
Safe To Say How ghastly the day before yesterday was now everyone associated with it…
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…
Ciarán O’Rourke: Breaking the Cycle
One Big Union is a self-published collection of essays by Irish poet Ciarán O’Rourke. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Poetry: Christoph Hargreaves-Allen
KUNG FOOL ••••••••••••••• So you think you’re the Master? Meet the Master of Disaster: Bring…