Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
December 15, 2018
“The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death.” These nine initial words from Jayant Kashyap’s poem ‘History’ in this issue...
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Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Issues • Poetry
By Jayant Kashyap This poem was originally published in the poetry chapbook Survival (2018) by Jayant Kashyap....
by Kevin Higgins This poem first appeared in Kevin Higgins’s 2014 collection The Ghost In The Lobby(Salmon Poetry)....
By Michael Aiken Beelzebub fallen to disease, absent himself willfully, to muster some inkling, some new insight born of nothing...
By Jack B. Bedell...
By Cheryl Pearson In the late 1880’s, the body of a young woman was pulled from the Seine. The pathologist at the Paris Morgue was so...
By Paul Casey stone turns to paper in her eye as she filters cycles of light into circles of paper stones her eye is a stone circle a...
by Paul Casey. 1. Just as the pillars meet a mile above the architrave A sky splinter plummets to puncture the floodplain A standing...
By Brian Jerrold Koester ...
By Jane Clarke Published in The River (Bloodaxe Books 2015)....
By Sandra Renew...
By Nuala O’Connor First published in The Juno Charm (Salmon, 2011)....
by Cynthia D. Nelson The Darmstadt Year I read out the sign at our new base: ...
by Anne Elvey baíte tipiche typical huts formaggio cheese taleggio ...
by Jenny Blackford The lumpy wrinkled flesh of some great ancient beast a woolly mammoth or elasmothere lies mummified beside the Hume...
by Patrick Stack This poem is from Patrick Stack’s first collection, The Parting (ADA, 2013), available on...
By Natalie D-Napoleon ...
By Denise O’Hagan We shrugged at bomb scares at school Locked our doors, watched our bags and our steps And skirted any lone bag...
by Fiona Perry A collection of mementoes to stimulate long term memory and a sense of identity in dementia patients. Inside:...
by Jenny Blackford Coventry Cathedral had been bombed, I knew, during the last great conflagration of the world, had lost some of its roof...
By Wendy J. Dunn...
By Cheryl Pearson ...
Issue Five • Issue Five Poetry • Poetry
June 8, 2018
By Michelle Cahill City of seven islands, guarded by eight-armed Mumbadevi, of the Dravidians, Marathis and Gujaratis, your name alludes to...
By Eileen Chong I Born a girl. By my father’s word, plate of ash untouched— Needle and silk: opaline peacocks, burning phoenixes. Last...
By Chelsea Dingman I open the windows to the house—humid air like a deer’s breaths in the spring rain. Streetlights flit off...
By Lizz Murphy From Aleppo – Rivers of blood women and children… viewed December 2016. From People smuggling – Turkey, Greece...
By Lizz Murphy In response to the article ‘Russian travel company wants to sell tours to the front line of Syrian civil war’...
Sugihara By Moya Pacey In 1941, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, helped Jews leave by issuing them...
By Ali Whitelock (First published in Ali Whitelock’s debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’...
By Ramon Loyola Note: ‘Where the feet have been’ is the last part of Ramon’s ‘suburban walkabout’ trilogy, with ‘You...
