Category: Ephemera
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“St Christina’s Gut” and other poems (series) by Clare McCotter
Saint Teresa’s Heart Claiming it a charism too diamond for the dark they hung her heart out to dry in a glass globe. Scraped and chafed with a life story the walls of its chambers reverberate still. A girl calling out to another, scratches gold swallows and nival lilies on woodwork none can unravel.…
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“Magic Bullet” and other poems by Rus Khomutoff
Untitled for Andre Breton Nostalgic sentiments and new wave nocturnes intersecting in a normal chaos of life an hourglass of neglected affinities idols of saturated phenomena night of filth, night of flowers the aporia of revelation Magic Bullet (for Tristan Tzara) Smell of death smell of life of embrace a medicine…
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From “Parvit of Agelast” and other poems by Máighréad Medbh
From Parvit of Agelast ‘Your face is ridiculous: O. . . . . leeeeee ugly 🙂❤ / thanks, sure i know !’ :L’ – Ciara Pugsley, ask.fm net whn th little lite shinin frm abve doesnt n younguns mad fr luv r spected 2 b home thumbs go drum on magic pads n open windows so…
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‘Red Hen’ and other poems by Shirley McClure
Maternity I want to have poems by Caesarean section wearing my Infallible lip gloss and counting on my designer obstetrician. I will keep my bump discreet, drink litres of San Pellegrino, strive to avoid striae gravidarum, laser them later if it comes to it. I want to live a normal life…
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Martyrdom by Kristina Marie Darling
Martyrdom I never imagined love as a cause for suicide. But there we were, surrounded by all of the tell-tale signs: a breadknife, a withered corsage, a white dress with some ruffles along the bottom. The night before I sensed that something had gone terribly wrong. He told her, brushing the hair from…
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Protected: The Non Herein- by Michael Mc Aloran
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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And Other Poems
This is a brief note about the And Other Poems blog which is owned and written by Josephine Corcoran. What a breath of fresh air the blog is, judging by contemporary availability of good poetry (and critique). To say that poetry is sorely neglected in the face of market-forces is a wild understatement, but more polemic anon. “And…
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The difficulty with muses
It seems that muses, those shadowy goddesses who influence writers, are limited under current editorial and employment injunctions to give inspiration alone to great male poets. Or so Simon Gough would have us believe. Muses apparently perform some type of quasi-sexual inspirational function and it doesn’t matter if they are girls or boys, once the poet…
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Two sestinas
‘Sestina’ by Dante Alighieri I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, to the short day and to the whitening hills, when the colour is all lost from the grass, though my desire will not lose its green, so rooted is it in this hardest stone, that speaks and feels as though it…
Chris Murray 