Rob A. Mackenzie on the empty page

World Class World class reputation became so much the norm among amateurs who had reviewed me positively that a cabinet for intangible effects was built, something like a cardboard box but not quite.  I worried that no one read my de rien sequence.Its...

Lucy Winrow remembers New Brighton

New BrightonAmongst the clunk of metal Dock yards and bitter sand storms Our feet dapple the spongy sand Marking, that we’ll get washed awayBreathlessly pressed up against the fort, The rock at my back Seaweed soaks me to the scalp, tainting it green, Blunting the...

Three short poems by Ingrid Andersen

It is a risk To open up words, unfold them to paper.  Found vowels, hidden sibilants chosen plosives  change shape on a page. (From Piece Work)  The succulent winter melonThe succulent winter melon lay halvedbefore us, seeds brimming its...