Maxine Beneba Clarke
Limerick

Mike Ladd Moonrise in a new suburb Colorbondage: fences edging the raw lowness. On this street Google maps can’t find yet a full moon has just been released. Seems no one else saw it jump the rooftops – all the TV lights through curtain cracks. Over waste...

Philip Neilsen Metamorphosis Bees are the most invaluable species on this planet … If the bees were to disappear today, humans would follow suit very soon. – Earthwatch Institute It was when the humming grew so loud that children covered their ears and dogs tried...

John Kinsella Uffizi Gallery, Florence – Painting P1472 ’Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror; For from the serpents gleams a brazen glare Kindled by that inextricable error Which makes a thrilling vapour of the air Become a [ ] an evershifting mirror “On the...

Erik Jensen

In Memoriam Kate Jennings: poet, novelist, feminist (1948–2021)

Kate Jennings (1948–2021) Once there was a way to get back home For Djuna Barnes who wrote The Book of Repulsive Women Thinking about home and where it will be, thinking about home, preoccupied with thinking about home and where will it be. Where will it be? For...

Juan Garrido-Salgado The dilemma of writing a few verses The dilemma of writing a poem without light, without the amenities of paper and ink without the digital keyboard but with memory correcting each verse like a clock tired of telling the time, a fallen rhythm into...

Michelle Cahill Epiphany for dad I have seen birth and death, But had thought they were different – T. S. Eliot As it rose for the Magi, a pink flush through the gum trees the bed that held his tortured, gagged body, fifteen months after a stroke lies empty in a...