Tag: Salma Ahmad Caller

  • bind, a waking book by C. Murray

    bind, a waking book by C. Murray

    Originally posted on Poethead by Chris Murray: They and I, O how far we have fallen! Just to burn here.    You can now order bind via Turas Press bind cover photograph is © Christian Caller, original artwork Bound / Boundless © Salma Ahmad Caller from the Irish Times I am a poet without a landscape, a…

  • bind; a waking book by C. Murray

    bind; a waking book by C. Murray

    They and I, O how far we have fallen! Just to burn here.    You can now order bind via Turas Press bind cover photograph is © Christian Caller, original artwork Bound / Boundless © Salma Ahmad Caller from the Irish Times I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage. I…

  • ‘A Hierarchy of Halls’ by C. Murray

    ‘A Hierarchy of Halls’ by C. Murray

    This is not a universe, it is a garden. Trees,   a hierarchy of halls, halls, a universe to sing.   Follow wren’s sound into the lowest corridors.   There, a huge gap, fox -made, is where blackbirds sing.   Stone-plateaued, daisy garlanded ground-held. Tree looms above it all. Early summer occurs in a calamity…

  • Making ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’ by Salma Ahmad Caller

    Making ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’ by Salma Ahmad Caller

      Notes on Salma Ahmad Caller’s process for the making of ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’.    The Den of Sibyl Wren is my response to Chris Murray’s A Hierarchy of Halls published by Smithereens Press It is my response to words Chris wrote about how she feels about this poem, and what she sees in her…