TWO CLOCKS TICKING In the house in Shotts, where my grandfather was born,the front room was stifled with velvet drapesand thick brocade table-cloths.There were photographs of whey-faced ghosts,anti-macassars, spotted mirrors,aspidistras, vases, knick-knacks….
Month: May 2025
Martin Hayes – Three Poems
the importance of a Marcus a metaphor in support of Kneecap and Spartacus – that maybe it’s the Farmer who’s the instigator of the problem – not all of us animals Marcus…
Dead Centre – Poem by Shaun Belcher
Shaun Belcher DEAD CENTRE If England was a target and you were looking at cross hairsIn the centre of the cross hairs would probably be DidcotThe most normal town in England according…
Island of Strangers – Poem Neil Fulwood
Neil Fulwood waxes topical… Talk to her: the woman who applies the gauzeand talks you through the aftercare. Talk to him: the man selling newspapersfrom the old-fashioned stall. The one whose identity’s…
David Graeber (1961-2020) – Andy Hedgecock
Andy Hedgecock writes an appreciation of the works of David Graeber (1961-2020). A dissident writer who in Utopia of Rules tackles the factors that lead us to create and sustain rule-based systems and – in turn – considers the tendency of those systems to determine the way we use our tools and technologies.
The hedgehog and the goose – Shaun Belcher
ECOLOGICAL THEMES IN THE POETRY OF ALASDAIR MACLEAN AND WILLIAM NEILL. “At heart no flyer, I bristle timidly when touched. When the ice comes I retreat beneath it. I choose at last…
Roy Marshall – Three Poems
Definition ‘Elon Musk’s appearance at a Trump rally this afternoon is garneringsignificant attention due to a one-armed gesture.’BBC News A tool for digging. A sharp metal blade attached to a long handle.Often has footrests…
REVIEW: Blossom Hibbert
REVIEW: suddenly, it’s now by Blossom Hibbert (Leafe Press) There is a strand of poetry, among a certain demographic of its twenty-something practitioners, which is increasingly informed by workshops, degree courses, social…
Leanne Moden – Two Poems
Vacuum Cleaner, 2123 after Thomas Lux More kleptocrat than civil servant, she devoured tangled hair cobwebs, choked down our discarded essence, tarnished pennies rattling in her cavernous belly. Crushed Loestrin teased from carpet weave,moths…
Anthony Owen – Three Poems
Sunrise over Israel Sunrise with its loose threadshurt my eyes oh yellow starYou set last night head separated with Jupiter her deep scar visible onlyto those who looked hardthrough the looking glass….
Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos – Alan Baker
REVIEW: Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos Alan Baker In Secret: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Enitharmon Press) A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Bloodaxe…