by Sofía Masondo | Aug 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Everybody Knows Ceilings don’t hold water well. Burst a pipe at the top of an apartment block to test this theory, if you will. Lock the doors to each flat. Let the water run down between kitchen floors, popping out the eyeballs of ceiling lights...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Abertawe After Richard Siken For CHD Tell me about the time I mansplained that Swansea is the English for Abertawe and means town at the mouth of the River Tawe. And about when, from the hill above Rhossili beach Lundy Island’s spectral mass...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Mark Wyatt’s pattern poems have appeared in Ambit, The Echo Room, ELTED, Nine Muses Poetry, P.E.N. New Poetry II (Arts Council/Quartet), Poetry Nottingham, Slow Dancer. He is currently developing a sequence of pattern poems that take inspiration from...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 21, 2024 | Word & Image
Helen Pletts translated into Chinese by Mǎ Yongbo 马永波 2024 illustrated by Romit Berger with Calypso与卡吕普索同在 No horizon will comfort you. See that faint line I pencilled in, Around your heart. Stop short. Lean back on the oars now, For the current is my favourite. See...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 14, 2024 | More Word & Image
ANY LAST WORDS. (Chapter 3 of film Back on Home Soil) A friend says, grief leaves everyone behind She ruminates on her words and goes grief leaves no one behind It shows in the way grief leaves a fraction in memory: Recollections once pristine are...
