Tag: Lapwing Publications

  • “Wormhole Kiss” and other poems by Patricia Walsh

    Dead to Cliché An apocryphal stain, hanging around classes Gulping up refreshments in a bold eye Windows of opportunity shun entitlement A rainy reason cuts across the sky. Terror pervades the burning opportunity To declare oneself fit for purpose Relief after paperwork and a spell’s decorum Bureaucratic selves taunting the figure. Not to be disturbed,…

  • “Sequence in Green” and other poems by Gillian Prew

    Sequence in Green (i) breaths Like in lights/breaths the woodwind song meets the trees. A green growth/ a rush of roots/ birds. Summer-swell/the flowered edges of day breaking. (ii) buds Hills of green shadow and butter-gorse. The dead made of dry stalks with all their buds inside them. (iii) bones Green lifts and stitches-in Perfumes/…

  • ‘I wanted to tell you, but there was no time’ and other poems by Csilla Toldy

    Kitchen   With hot chilli in my eyes I read between the lines, a coded message of noises: A child’s scream sheathed in wind blasts,   gashes through the cracks. The mandalay porcelain clock, riveting, ticks between my shoulder blades. I carry my life like a snail.   The fridge sighs, a boiler roars into…

  • Sequences — (After Francis Bacon) by Michael McAloran

    Sequences — (After Francis Bacon)   2…meat unto collapse/ stead lapse/ the lung’s abort in headless barrage the head is/ traces the/ meat’s sarcophagus is the light surrounding/ the forms that bind the subject-object/being in this from onset’s claim/ the stripping down of/ in gradual of irreversible/ meat does not climb it cannot/ it/ blind…

  • ‘The Elm Tree’ by Peter O’Neill

    The Elm Tree by Peter O’Neill   64 pages   Paperback   Lapwing Publications, 2014 Available at link The structure of Peter O’Neill’s The Elm Tree (Lapwing Publications, 2014) is quite interesting. The contents page is divided into five sections, each section is actually the name of a full poetry collection. Thus, the reader is…

  • 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…

  • ‘Through the blossom-gate’ by C. Murray

    Through the blossom-gate,   and quite before the acid leaf unfurls into its meaning— we are subjected to the play of light working on our necessity to speak out into a flowering. It is not yet warm — already the sun is playing at dragging up and displaying those unwanted words elucidatory and garish in their…

  • Protected: The Non Herein- by Michael Mc Aloran

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  • ‘World Put to Rights’ by Kelly Creighton

    World Put to Rights The dream that burst riverbanks held you; blackstrap molasses, antidote for your poison. Your plummets spraying wetness like a coin in a cascade woke no-one, not even us. The church spire grew legs, scaled bricks, ran to your side, spotlighted. I put glass over that glow. Quiet-huff of your refuge, flailing…