by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 5, 2026 | Featured, Translation, Word & Image
i chose the cat I placed my cold, white, thin fingers in the warm folds of catskin and hair but the cat spat and spoke dicer’s oaths, projecting catspittle through a small red toothless space, keeping one yellow pirate eye fixed on the hem of my...
by Kate Birch | Dec 1, 2025 | Translation, Word & Image
Reconnaître I want to remember the way back. It seems Orion has the compass’ foot, Swinging his other leg out into the dark With the confidence of a man who walks on stars. I use the skills of the corncrake tonight. I need to remember in the...
by Helen Ivory | May 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Translation
باز هم دوربین ها می چرخند زمین سرگیجه می گیرد و CNN بالا میآورد آمار کشته ها را این شعر را Men are the color of soil Women are sitting on the ashes And white sheets are losing their color Because of children’s blood...
by Kate Birch | Mar 21, 2025 | Translation, Word & Image
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves 悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团 stripped of spindly epicormic shoots, the now-knuckle-tree jabs her skeletal arms over the snapped stale breaths of pale, orange shavings powdering the tree surgeon’s yellow truck. Her psoriatic...
by IB | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Translation
The Memory of Lives incarnation. God in his worn, greasy jeans like a car mechanic is lighting a new life from an old one. a new cigarette from a cigarette butt. and you are merely a flame between the two worlds, smoked on an empty stomach. while he breathes...
by Sofía Masondo | Aug 21, 2024 | Translation, 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...
