Deirdre Hines

The Veterans are so busy loading and unloading cargoes of invisible presences from the flag fluttering ships anchored in their hallways, that it can take a lot of  time to open the doors behind which are slouching carers employed by those pirates, who won the care...

Pratheesh Ramachandran

  Touch I  Whispered. Even the stones or the ants Wouldn’t hear. And i listened to the god sobbing From the room Next to the earth.         Pratheesh Ramachandran was born in 1987 in Kerala,India. He is a bilingual  Poet and artist. Has...

Gregg Dotoli

      The Observer of Silly flash shower , quick-dried and dressed snow again? while I scramble for my keys a tree perched  squirrel smiles as I enter my car         Gregg Dotoli studied English at Seton Hall University and enjoys...

Leonardo Boix

Gnarled Forest  “You have finished on your own what no one ever started.” ― From Diana’s Tree, Alejandra Pizarnik     I dream mother is sleeping in her ochre bedroom; herringbone parquet floors, the curtains drawn to keep the intense heat out.The room, a...

Jean Atkin reviews ‘Reward for Winter’ by Di Slaney

  Reading Di Slaney’s first full collection from Valley Press, I’m taken straight to where the smell and taste of outdoors makes time pass differently. ‘Every dawn she looks up, sucks on doing words to break her fast, breathes in the day. So many to roll around a...