SERKAN ENGİN Barbarian and Ms Daisy yes, you are right Ms Daisy, they came with the wild winds of Greed, brutally slaughtered all the innocent letters written on the wall of Grace, even also babies by burning them alive, before…
SERKAN ENGİN According to the school of imagist socialist poetry, poetry is written in poetic images, not in individual words. But what is poetic image and how can it be created? The description of the “image,” according to the philosophy,…
JOHN I. CLARKE Method and organisation I will shore against my ruins. A couple of hours will see me through these exercise books, a bit of flick and tick while Eric is preparing the dinner. Eric? Oh he’s quite the…
PEACEFUL MORNING IN THE HIMALAYAS It appears as if the previous night has quenched every thirst The day comes with light and voices of birds strange to the ear In the distance the wavering sound of a reed flute: a…
PLEA Do not come as light which all too bright blinds the eye neither come as darkness which one cannot grasp but rather do come as a thorn who announces the rose is within reach. Germain Droogenbroodt In Dutch, the…
Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Philip Arthur Larkin, (Coventry 9 August 1922 – London 2 December 1985) was an English…
CATHERINE LONIE Thanks to Irvine Welsh and “Trainspotting”, the ancient port of Leith is infamous. Even before Welsh’s novel, my grandmother had a low opinion of the place and would have been horrified to know any of her kin, however…
