Thomas Ország-Land on Bernard Kops

by | Oct 6, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews

This Room in the Sunlight Collected Poems by Bernard Kops, David Paul Publishing, London, 2010, £9.99p, Paperback, 132pp., ISBN 9780954848262Among the greatest events of British literature this decade is the publication of the collected poems of Bernard Kops, the...

Melanie Browne's 'Ash'

by | Oct 5, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Ash In your poems I hear the devils’ trill,and isn’t that the charm?In your eyes I see volcanic ash,love, isn’t that the draw?I listen to Neruda in His native tongue,it makes me thirsty, yet all I have is tearsI have a tattoo of Shelly’s heart on my hip,I dreamed you...

Michael Estabrook is wondering

by | Oct 4, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

I’m wondering –If I were riding my bicyclein the Tour de France, a littleahead of the Pelotonwith a chance of winning a stage,this stage, Stage 7 or 9 or 12,and rounding a turn I came upon youstanding at the side of the road,clapping and cheering the riders on,so...

Some short prose from Adam Smith

by | Oct 3, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Your Reservation Code Is MWDX9768Through driving rain on the boundless, endless motorways of England, from estuary to city to harbour and back. From M4 to M5. Megabus and Megatrain and one pound fares to Stoke-on-Trent. I take the seat with all the legroom and stretch...

Jay Passer can see the future but

by | Oct 2, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

I can see the future but it's not seeing and it's not the futureof spiritual worlds where music is the absence of evening newschewing like a rat through a prison walla mole blind to the paintings of Van Goghwe met by the river at Auvers-sur-Oisebut it's...