Órla Foyle – I Saw Beckett The Other Day
I saw Beckett the other dayin the doorway of that caféwhere you took his photograph.
You know the onewhen he looked up at...
Órla Foyle
Órla Foyle was born to Irish parents in Nigeria, Africa and has also lived in Kenya, Malawi and Australia. She now lives...
Celeste Augé – How I Learnt to be Jewish
The thing is, the reality of being a teen activist is very different to how I pictured it when I was eleven. It mostly...
Celeste Augé – Things You Find Out
There are things you find out: not all homeless people sleep on the street. Some sleep in B&Bs, some in hostels, some in hotels....
Celeste Augé
Celeste Augé is the author of Skip Diving (Salmon Poetry, 2014), The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and the collection of short...
Elaine Cosgrove – Greening
I.
Cold February, Galway Novena comes around again.
Students burst home past the Cathedral’s line.
The rain starts to come down hard and under white flap,
a trailer...
Elaine Cosgrove – Inside the 24hr
First we all hear the shuffling noise.
Look! a tourist outside Spar exclaims—her phone,
a pitchfork claim, a scamall despair, our local newsprint’s
state stories so close,...
Elaine Cosgrove – Endless
We become adult
on roads, on lines,
on grids, on greens,
on grey spaces —
you cannot zoom in.
We become older
with the city as seer,
decibels the scale
from stepping...
Elaine Cosgrove
Elaine Cosgrove is from the West of Ireland. Transmissions, her debut collection of poems, is published by Dedalus Press.
Elaine Cosgrove was born in Sligo...
Stephen Byrne – Because You’re A Girl
you will bring life
into this world,
only to lose yours.
Because you’re a girl
you will suffer mutilation
to bleed & scream for a month.
Because you’re a girl
you...
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Pina Piccolo – I Would Have Liked To Be patti smith
I would have liked to be
patti smith.
Locks of rebellious
gray hair.
Indomitable
gaunt visage.
The jacket:
the worn-out one
from Horses
that dangles
carelessly
from a shoulder.
And to continue tapping
with your slim...
Valerio Evangelisti – One Big Union
A tale in between/A link between Antracite (Anthracite) and Noi saremo tutto (We shall be everything), One Big Union talks about/deals with the fights...
Silvio Donà – The rookie writer launching his new novel: chronicle of a foretold...
No matter how you succeeded in publishing a book: either you are the genius of the millennium, or you paid for it, or you...
Sotirios Pastakas – Babel
No, I don’t come from Eleusis. Southern Italy.
Sandy returned from the Aegean rally in Nisyros.
I found Yannis in 37 and he bought me a...
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Shock bibliotherapy suggestions… every book, both fiction and non-fiction, can inspire, help, and guide us in every walk of life, as long as we...
