Tag: John W. Sexton

  • “Tea with Akhmatova’s Cat” and other poems by John Sexton

    Tea with Akhmatova’s Cat   I’m having tea with Akhmatova’s cat who purrs in English passable enough that half-wit mice can follow what she’s at.   She speaks in metres forcible but flat: a mix of Milton, Keats, hairballs and fluff. I’m having tea with Akhmatova’s cat.   Quite bored, I count the fibres on…

  • Bone Orchard Poetry, a blogzine for working poets and writers

    Bone Orchard Poetry is variously active on discussion sites and uses social-media well. This is what writers refer to as bloody good innovative web-use. Editor Michael McAloran keeps the blogzine brief in description, ‘ An explorative blogzine of the Bleak/ the Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental. ‘ There you have it encapsulated in a single…

  • Issue 22 of the Southword Literary Journal is now online

    Issue 22 of the Southword Literary Journal of the Munster Literature Centre is now online. I am adding one of my published poems from Southword 22, a contents page from the journal, and a link to the Munster Literature Centre’s homepage. Please do visit the poetry, review and essay pages, as well as the other three poems…