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 …

        Shortheath Road   In a suburb of my former home town on the way to a relegation clash, I stop to get …

        Highbury Park   In the woods at night men are fucking amongst the gorgeous piñatas of the rhododendrons, the avenue of cool …

  Below is an extract from Paul McLoughlin’s Breaking Ground: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Poems in Old English and in Translation, recently published by Paekakariki Press, …