Tag: Smithereens Press
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‘Three Red Things’ by C. Murray
Originally posted on Poethead by Chris Murray: Three Red Things the three red things are: a red umbrella with a black lace trim spoke-shattered it belongs to my mother, does not match my abstract and faux snaky blouson jacket, Alfred Schütze’s The Enigma of Evil a memento-mori from his old library, its red cover is…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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‘Three Red Things’ by C. Murray
Three Red Things the three red things are: a red umbrella with a black lace trim spoke-shattered it belongs to my mother, does not match my abstract and faux snaky blouson jacket, Alfred Schütze’s The Enigma of Evil a memento-mori from his old library, its red cover is rain-glued-sodden. I bind myself to a tree,…
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“Lifelike” and other poems by Jennifer Matthews
Family Portraits “With skin like that, you don’t have to open your mouth.” Muting praise; Mother twirled back the sardine-tin key of his sister’s tongue. Richard Avedon, embryonic photographer fixed his Kodax Box Brownie on Sister, to exhume her from her own beauty. … she believed she existed only as skin,…
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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…
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