Category: Single Poems

  • A Celebration of Women’s Poetry on International Women’s Day 2019

    A Celebration of Women’s Poetry on International Women’s Day 2019

    Image: Srilata Krishnan Poethead has been celebrating the achievements of women writers, editors and translators for over a decade. International Women’s Day 2019 is no exception. This year I have decided to highlight the work of women poets from my international index and to introduce my readers to some new Irish poets. I am very…

  • A celebration of women’s poetry for International Women’s Day 2017

    A celebration of women’s poetry for International Women’s Day 2017

    Featured image from “The Infinite Body Of Sensation” by Salma Caller Salma Ahmad Caller is an artist and a hybrid of cultures and faiths. She is drawn to hybrid and ornamental forms, and to how the body expresses itself in the mind to create an embodied ‘image’. UK based, she was born in Iraq to…

  • “Iago’s Curse” and other poems by Liza McAlister Williams

    September Tenth, 2001   Outside the store, at the sidewalk sale, the breeze lifts each dress again as the shop girl tries to smoothen them: musses the chic brown challis pleats, ruffles the flamestitch voile whose turquoise and chartreuse V’s seem borrowed from another day. Sun, when it shines on this scene, is playful, peeping…