Category: Art

  • Signature

      Poems from ‘Signature’   thistle roll   thistle roll twig sphere scatters a   thicket clump looks alive, it is red-tipped    a feather-blown bag-blown   bird-corpse let lie its throat opened out   purple the thistle -blown hue, purple the cry   tear   a field of ewes, their winter wool loose, blown…

  • A Preview of My New Book ‘She’.

    The first edition of SHE was published by Oneiros Books in 2014. 82 Pages Perfect-bound Paperback. The cover painting image is © Anastasia Kashian, with great thanks to David Mitchell for design, and to Michael McAloran for accepting the book on behalf of Oneiros Books. Two poems from The Island Sequence of ‘She’ sea is a womb…

  • ‘Cup’ and ‘New Trees’ by C. Murray

    Cup nest rests her cup (heart, feather) into wood winds capillary In air (above) sky is a heart caught red, its amber spilling nest stills her dust and moss breathe out  underground, wet roots stir the sleeping house up soften      the softening rain my veins answer tree . Cup is © C. Murray . New Trees, there…

  • Poems by Christine Broe

    Breakfasting with Dreams Birdsong. Scraps of dreams remembered. I place one foot, then the other, on the floor. Outside in the first light of breaking day dew lies on the discarded squashed remains of suppers bought from greasy chipper vans, and mist will blend with fumes of car exhausts as workers crawl from sleepy dormer…

  • Poems from ‘Of Dead Silences’ by Michael McAloran

    Of The- Head of death The seasons dissipate as if they Had never collected tears A dissolving sky Soil sieved through fingers The silent laughter of the blood Nothing More- Ruins of the foreign sky From which point all are dead Smears of dying animals upon clear glass The flies will gather, nothing more Ignites-…

  • Recours au Poème: Poésies & Mondes Poétiques

    My thanks to Matthieu Baumier, editor at Recours au Poème, and to Elizabeth Brunazzi, who published and translated four poems from my collection, Cycles (Lapwing Publications, 2013).   I am adding here Elizabeth’s translation of i and the village (after Marc Chagall) moi et le Village   (d’après Marc Chagall)   Version française, Elizabeth Brunazzi…

  • Previews from ‘In Havoc Lights’ by Michael McAloran

    vii- …vertigo ice/ what said/ yes/ said/ it follows/ the clasp-knife breath that lingers/ in the rat deep of vermin obsolete/ of the night’s claim/ shadowed by meat/ in the presence of the none/ a blind man’s cane tracing the brail sheets of nothing left to be/ inherent dice of the unknown/ till failure/ terror of/ asking then…

  • 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…

  • Forms ; A Sampler by Chris Allen

    Originally posted on Poethead by Chris Murray: Forms; A Sampler for C.M What would they have said had you heard the whisper slip ravenous up the avenue on fat and awkward dialect towards the parlour comfort of an army of the wizened faces of their mother, who settled in her embroideries internalising the potential of…

  • Review: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran.

    the griefscape as no-place: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran. endless ribcage of the sky / the glut of blood beneath and a pulse of shit / dry your eyes / it’s just beginning ( p123 ,  all stepped / undone – ) is © Michael McAloran All Stepped /Undone- is Michael McAloran’s fifth full poetry collection, and…