Before the party by Denise O’Hagan

Before the party by Denise O’Hagan

by | Jun 3, 2019 | Poetry

Art: A City for All by Aphrodite Lutz BEFORE THE PARTY It must have just stopped raining When we arrived. The road, licked for hours By the quiet slap of countless passing tyres, Gleamed blackly under the streetlamps Like wet liquorice. We sat for a moment Watching...
What was by Denise O’Hagan

What was by Denise O’Hagan

by | Jun 1, 2019 | Poetry

Art: Cyril Larvor WHAT WAS In the kitchen I stand Tracksuit-clad and blinking As the click of the front door shuts The sounds of the day away. I snuff the gas And the subterranean gurgling fades to naught As, like a latter-day suburban witch Leaning over her...
Gambling the Aisle by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

Gambling the Aisle by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

by | May 29, 2019 | Poetry

Art: Feux d Artifice sur Canal Saint-Martin, Paris by Boré Ivanoff GAMBLING THE AISLE An arm length this uproar from the sea in an urgent need of an operation, crabs climb out and at first glance seeming the ruddy attendants to modify the then-yellow lacquer, their...
No Space, No Time by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

No Space, No Time by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

by | May 24, 2019 | Poetry

Art: Conflicted by Robert Ferrier NO SPACE, NO TIME Face it. The distance dissolves from Tom Jones to Tiago Hannah, the sun is cold & wet in Mopti. To bring about its areas such as Cape West in the offing, a request for the location, the basic values are its...