James Peake’s debut collection, Reaction Time of Glass, will be published by Two Rivers Press on 21st July. Below are four poems by James, …

        The Flower Carrier   after the painting by Diego Rivera, 1935   These blooms are for the mayor’s daughter, wedding on which …

        Big Talk   ‘when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and colour, the common man… cannot grasp their reality.’ ~ Rumi …

        Blood in the Sky   A mortar attack hit a new condominium, built just a year ago, mixing lost lives with debris, …

  Below is a poem from Declan Ryan’s new pamphlet, Fighters, Losers, published this week by New Walk Editions and available to buy here. Declan …

        Dream Lover   Next to a Spanish river, I tell him my body is ruined. Not existing, he doesnʼt mind: I like …

©Paul Stuart         Rhiannon   1   One evening, having dined in my estate Among my many men, merry and wise, I took …

         Notes From Sarajevo   …a bullet in flight bears no sound   The city’s empty but for wind varying shades of darkness …

        Another Language   When I speak in Cantonese, I’m almost a different person. Louder, brighter. The seven tones, ascending, descending like musical …

    The following poems appear in John Greening’s new collection, The Silence, published by Carcanet in June 2019.       from The Silence …