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Poem: Three Studies of Fruit
Have I painted these scenes? Or merely collected them? I will try to display them in pure colours, simplest form. Illustration by Ethan Rilly i. First: the orange of an orange1 in the dining room,...
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Poem: My Life Aboard the Last Sailing Ship Carrying Cumberland Coal
You give your firstborn daughter A central-Asian name Meaning blue or water. Years later two bluebirds alight on either arm And an artist’s quick needlework Stitches birds to skin So even In your...
View ArticleHokkien Lesson 1: The Granddaughter’s Phrasebook
ang mo red hair jin sui very beautiful wah pah de leao see I will beat you to death wah zaiiyah I know wah gaiigee I can do it myself The post Hokkien Lesson 1: The Granddaughter’s Phrasebook appeared...
View ArticleXVII, from The Minutes
Let’s begin: Come man know your span sing wilde curcles with no circumference where even the birds cannot pass an emptiness that contracts to a point no count is sure, there is no point to the act if...
View ArticleTwo New Poems by George Elliott Clarke
The poems happened completely by chance. This “chanciness” is deliberate. I begin to write something that’s vaguely about African slavery, and then a direction or impulse or voice imposes itself on the...
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The Night Prayer’s Lord, a Poem
The poem “The Night Prayer’s Lord” like most of the poems in my most recent collection, Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak & Wynn), pays homage to the late Irish poet Dorothy...
View ArticleSelf-Love
I do not know if I was given James Herriot books to read as a child because I wanted to be a veterinarian or if I wanted to be a veterinarian because I was given James Herriot books to read as a child...
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“Rosily I Will Squander Myself”: A Review of 3 Summers by Lisa Robertson
Bear with me while I tell you, briefly, about Epicureanism: a philosophy about a world without divine judgment, where nothing you are or do in your lifetime is anything more than what it is. This is a...
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“The whole art of everything is about forgetting yourself” – A Conversation...
Alice Oswald’s collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted...
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The Geography of Desire – A review of Siren by Kateri Lanthier
If you wanted to find a daughter abducted by a powerful man, you might need to cover a lot of territory. The earth mother Demeter gave wings to young women singers willing to search, but when they...
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