by IB | Jul 14, 2025 | Reviews
Poet Amlanjyoti Goswami’s third collection of verses, A Different Story (Poetrywala, 2025), conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance. This curious...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Wah-Wah Pedal Poem I hide a knife amongst a bush longing to burn, days like these are plots from a heathen’s bible. Broken glass, making noise on the skeleton-throne night becomes heartless stone, guilty as mathematics bleeding poetry from...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
My Previous Life as a Swallow My second cousin twice removed arrived in May at her old nest in the eaves of the ruined barn. I see her and her partner flying in and out on the crest of breezes we used to surf together, joining dusk aerobatics at...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Brigid’s Land Grab A white cloak that folds like a shopping bag, like a Pac-a-mac with pagan overtones, much larger when unfolded than a pocket, a TARDIS of a cloak. And when she threw it, opened it up, it kept unfurling, a flag for all the earth...
by Kate Birch | Jul 11, 2025 | Word & Image
Cosmic Spirit The beauty and fragility of Ryoko Minamitani paintings will mesmerise your mind into eternity. https://www.ryokom.com/, Instagram: @ryokom.3, Facebook. Xavier Panadès i Blas (aka The Poetry Beast)’s writings absorb the readers to the...
