LITERATURES FROM THE WORLD
Ahimaaz Ben Paltiel and the Book of Descents
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the discovery of a manuscript found in the Library of Toledo Cathedral by Adolph Neubauer, a librarian...
WORDS FROM IRELAND
June Caldwell – Upcycle: an account of some strange happenings on...
It is hardly worth telling, this story of mine, or at least in a modern context, because so many people go through the same...
Lauren Foley – Hot Rocks
Seaside village, North County Dublin, Ireland, 1993
Her first boyfriend used to kiss her after coffee and oranges. It was a strange taste. But she...
LATEST
FACING EAST
Nenad Joldeski – You
you have pulled every hair from your body
and planted them in dry earth
you tell yourself that one day maybe something will sprout
that it will be as slow and sweet as water grinding rock
while the...
Nenad Joldeski – Ненад Јолдески
Nenad Joldeski was born in 1986 in Struga, Macedonia. In 2010 he graduated at the state faculty of Economy in Skopje. In 2013 he received master degree in comparative literature on the subject “Intertextual...
Alexander Shurbanov – The Circle Closes
Sea turtles thrive as coronavirus lockdowns
empty nesting beaches, experts say.
There, the infection thrust
its mercury column into people’s hearts
and they themselves barred their own doors
against each other and one against all.
Then men turned prisoners to...
Alexander Shurbanov – Waiting for Schliemann
Everything I’ve written
has its whereabouts
in spacetime.
Not a word is invented,
not a sound.
If one day a Schliemann
rakes the dust of the ages,
Troy the unconquerable
will surface
such as it has been
in actuality –
with Hecuba
chained to the...
What propels poetry into being is amazement: conversation with Alexander Shurbanov
I met Alexander Shurbanov in Sofia during the summer of 2016, on the occasion of a brief visit to the capital of Bulgaria connected with the publication of a collection of my poems by...
Alexander Shurbanov
Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of many books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s mature tragedies, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, Rabindranath Tagore’s and...
THE STONE
Claire Loader – Qetesh
A goddess sits at the end of my bed,
visits these nights of waking.
Where thoughts run
more than fingers, hands wary
of the divide.
Instead we turn...
