Category: POETRY
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Andrew Taylor – Four Poems
Small Glass Pouring Light Shake the frost freewide river view to shoreroad noise anticipationof the carrier’s cart loadedwith news & print Bright star above the baybeautiful & simpleendlessly revealing Arctic Drone Winter keeper on watchthe map line of eternal ice Hot Soup Time Machine From afar welcoming window candle litwith the dark drops the dew…
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How Not to be a Poet: Shaun Belcher
How not to be a poet…
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GRETA THUNBERG: A poem by Anthony Owen
TWTWTW : Topical Poems classed as That Was The Week That Was GRETA THUNBERG If only you were a rock starshouting free PalestineCrowd-surfing a flotilla of handsbut you never showed us your fleshWhen you wept for unfashionable fleshAnd you look autistic how dare you You stole their dreams. Antony Owen https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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DEFENCE: Poem by Neil Fulwood
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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Maria Taylor – Three Poems
My Parents’ Wedding, July 1975 A rushed wedding, a year after the fighting.Newlywed Anna unable to finish her breakfastat the hotel. Dimitri insists she drinks upher scalding tea or they’ll miss the train. At St. Pancras, Anna sees the 9:40 pull in.She can still run away. Dimitri who wantedto leave in a hurry, grieves an…
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Dennis O’Donnell: Three Poems
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. You could feel the suck of the past on you, there,as you closed the curtained door with a thudand muffled outside, the bright…
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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 hasn’t been doing too well latelyhis woman left him last week and two months before thathis mother diedso his performance stats, which are…
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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 to the pollstersThe 11th worst place to live according to crap towns My home town, the town my family still live in, die inA…
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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 a mysteryto you? Talk to them. Go ahead. Just smile and be open and say hello.Mention the weather and wish them well. That’s…
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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 hedgehogs.” Thus Alasdair Maclean ends his poem ’Hedgehogs and Geese’ in his first published book of poems ‘From the Wilderness’ which has ‘Poetry…
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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 to help drive it into the ground.The Irish version is thinner, and the sharpshooter,used for cutting post holes, is long and narrow.The fishtail with its flared triangular head,…
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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 media echo chambers and an almost aggressive approach to networking and self-publicity. Homogeneity ensues; a sense pervades of poetry being written to a…
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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 pulverised by her tough plastic throat. Constellations of half-moon clippingschewed from our bleeding fingers, busted earring backs & bent paperclips caught against her Hoover…
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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. I can see new houses emerge from ruinsIt looks like a bomb site but like moonscape GazaNot otherworldly as headphones disconnected with a…
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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 Books) Yiannis Ritsos Among His Contemporaries, ed. Marjorie Chambers (Colenso Books) Monochords by Yiannis Ritsos, tr. Paul Merchant, linocuts by Chiara Ambrosio (Prototype…