Tag: oneiros books

  • ‘sans’ published southword literary journal

    sans it is all ceremony it is all the cloths all gathered-in it is white tailor’s chalk in a neat triangle it is the blanket-stitch before the machine it is the neighbour woman with her bone-pick pulling stitches one by one from the curtain lining the [bone-pick] is ivory coloured a little larger than a…

  • “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/…

  • the subtle flavouring of fish // C. Murray

    teserrae of names dull mustard fiery gold flames organics of mushroom tea   gaudy/ Gaudi/ lace/ paste St Audrey/ rust/ blood/ lace yes, tawdry lace              -I can use that   round and round the mulberry bush oranges/ bees/ fish/ old chain letter/ old poems stuck together/ spermed-together/ cum-came/ come…

  • from “breath(en) flux ” by Michael McAloran

    I # .…silence yes/ silenced yes/ as if to ever having done with it/ stripped solace no/   vital lapse in all depth of becoming-un/ as if because it were unto/ ash unto/   no/ pure as never was/ ever was/ given to yet it cannot/ asks of dust what climb or other than /…

  • ‘L’Heure Bleu’ poems by Aad de Gids and C. Murray

    L’Heure Bleu a dwell in the night a, sigh. a dervish dislodged a textile, sigh it is the night it is a night on earth the hedges prematurely in bloom with almost lightning, flowers so, white and optic so,opioid a scent as some people sit on a bench and conspicuous leaves on the forestrial floor.…

  • 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…

  • Review: A Wound’s Sound by Gillian Prew

    A Wound’s Sound by Gillian Prew 62 pages Published by Oneiros Books in 2014 Cover Art by Matt Sesow This poem This poem has blood in its ears/ it is being hauled up by a hook/ it is losing consciousness     This Poem is by Gillian Prew Gillian Prew’s recent publication A Wound’s Sound…

  • Poetry: “restlessly, driven by leaves” by Gillian Prew

    “restlessly, driven by leaves.” after a line by Rilke Leaf-sound/sea-sound/bird-sound/ shoved places of air – pockets of autumn/natural languages. * The scuffed water/the swinging fruits/the ruffled gulls – wind with its throat open. * The soaring cold barks at windows like a kept-out dog whines through the small spaces/slows the old. * And in cold’s…

  • may bell

    may bell   not a rook to maycaw its mockery seats are pulled up to the maybell statuary   starling swipes up at a yellow tree laburnum is poison it sings   yellow fish are stitched into a tree tacked into the leaf and flower   the flowerpod the seed –   maybe all three:…

  • of the nothing of by Michael McAloran

    of the nothing of . Paperback: 182 Pages Oneiros Books 2014 Cover is © Tadhg Murray 　  …I genuflect to nothing, in a vacancy of shit..   (from of the none exposed) Michael McAloran’s of the nothing of is subtly related to another of his works with Oneiros Books All Stepped/Undone. While both collections have a loosely tripartite structure, in…