The below poems are taken from John Challis’s debut collection, The Resurrectionists, forthcoming from Bloodaxe this month.         There’s been talk …

        In Memoriam Alun Lewis   1915-1944   From India you wrote of coming back and that isolation for youth to breathe and …

    Photo by Henrik Hjortshøj on Unsplash            The Stillness of the Cows   While summer’s delaying, they doze and graze, ruminate …

        Toll   I hear the accusations like the Lutine Bell: nostalgie de la boue or blood and soil; found poetry or cento. …

        The Insomniac’s Mouth   drones like a cave ululating the breeze of an unmoored summer night. In a hotel room his lover …

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash           Compass point   Compass north can wander many miles apart from true north, and it …

Photo by Jonny Gios on Unsplash            Lines in rock   Words say waters flow rocks weather ferns wither winds blow times …

        Santa Maria del Popolo   They are listening underfoot here, filigree-tongued and built with bones crowding from centuries of faltering tombs. Childhood …

        Patwá   When I was a young boy, Sundays spoke a strange tongue: Jesus and his gang of bells, the cry of …

        Arrival   I. Julie shouts from her second-floor window I HAVE THE COUNCIL ON SPEED DIAL IF YOU CAUSE ANY TROUBLE and …