An entangled web of chains run through the Africa-shaped-afro of the figure on the front cover, complimenting the complex themes explored inside this poetry debut by Kev Inn: Adventures in Racial Capitalism. Here are stories of prejudice and hardships felt by the author to tales of home and hope.
Songs drift from open windows: the radio, someone washing dishes, a tv, voices—more of an insight into people’s lives than the silent aquarium of closed glass. In Merrie Joy William’s collection, these open windows lead to childhood memories, romantic discovery, loss, life, faith and more. Her view into the past is never overly sentimental, but full Read More
Philip Ruthen’s latest collection, Familial, is published by the Waterloo press. This is his third collection after Jetty View Holding and Apple Eye Feat. Familial explores a multitude of landscapes, both psychological and physical. The poems articulate strange realities, whether it is the voices of inmates of psychiatric hospitals (“Prelude (Cluster)”), the “curiously satisfied distress” Read More
This collection of poems and writings provides a little window into the mind of a thinker obsessed with writing. Amos Weisz, bilingual European – he worked, lived and thought in English and German – was a philosopher and mathematician by education. He wrote poetry, prose and drama, translated academic prose and the German culture in Read More
Dizza Castle is a collection of poems by Iraqi poet Salahi Niazi, selected and edited by his friend David Andrew. This collection introduces Niazi’s work, which is originally written in the poet’s native Arabic to an English-speaking audience. Considered to be one of the pioneers of Modern Iraqi Arabic poetry, Niazi is a hugely prominent Read More
A midnight court during which only men are invited to speak is where the reader of John O’Donoghue’s Fools & Mad finds herself at this epic poem’s finale. Yet these are no ordinary men, but a jury of twelve poets hand-picked by Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift from Ireland’s literary history. They have been gathered here Read More
Homer’s epic has always prompted strong responses ever since its first appearance during Greece’s archaic period. Poets and playwrights ransacked it for stories in the later centuries BCE (Before the Common Era). The process continued through the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance, on through the various literary Augustan, Romantic, Victorian and Modernist periods, and Read More
