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Pina Piccolo – The Poet’s Adventure
The poet had everything ready: a light briefcase, a ticket, an address. Now, while he was sitting on a bench waiting for the train,...
Miriam Bonetti – Central coffee bar
The Central was the historical bar in town, situated like a breach in the walls that surrounded the square along with an agonizing greengrocer’s...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
Rae Armantrout: Writing poems is, for me, a way of asking...
Rae Armantrout is the author of sixteen books of poems, including Conjure (Wesleyan, 2020), Wobble (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award, Partly,...
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EDITORIAL
Afric McGlinchey – ‘Literary Jury Duty’: Why Reviewing Matters.
I’m guessing that most reviewers are themselves poets. Many of us know that heart-in-mouth feeling of waiting for the critic’s verdict, the one that...
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COMICS
Literatures
Raphael d’Abdon – the kubrick connection
(based on actual events)
1. eyes wide shut
the first time i watched it
it was christmas eve
2. the shining
part 1
the first time i watched...
Raphael d’Abdon
Dr Raphael d’Abdon was born in Udine (Italy) and lives in Pretoria (South Africa). He is a writer, scholar, spoken word poet, editor and...
Rae Armantrout – With
It’s well
that things should stir
inconsequentially
around me
like this
patina of shadow,
flicker, whisper,
so that
I can be still.
*
I write things down
to show others
later
or to show myself
that I am...
Feud
The first season of Feud was transmitted between March and April 2017. It has 8 episodes and it is based on the true story...
Rae Armantrout – And
1
Tense and tenuous
grow from the same root
as does tender
in its several guises:
the sour grass flower;
the yellow moth.
2
I would not confuse
the bogus
with the spurious.
The bogus
is a sore thumb
while...
Reading second-language writing
Exophonic writers – those who write in a language other than their primary or so-say native tongue – choose to do so for many...
Reviews
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Down and dirty is too important to simply be defined by a movie genre. A...
Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Cazalet Chronicles
As written by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jane Howard is a craftswoman, because in order to...
Richard Wright – Native Son
Bigger Thomas grew up in the black ghetto of Chicago where, even though he has...
Arundhathi Subramaniam – Love without a Story
The title of Arundhathi Subramaniam’s adeptly wrought, and wide-ranging collection immediately begs a question. Or...
Jeff Buckley – Grace
First work, poetic declaration and testament at the same time as one of the greatest...
Gore Vidal – The City and the Pillar
The City and the Pillar is a novel by the American writer Gore Vidal, published...
Charles Dickens – A tale of two cities
“Read Dickens, he is the master of us all”
I would define myself as Cartesio’s son:...
Catherine Dunne – In the Beginning
There are emotions, feelings and sensations you think belong only to you, details you think...
Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes": Marillion and the jester's farewell
It was...
James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
John is Reverend Grimes’ son, which is an upright preacher faithful until almost reaching fanaticism,...
