MELYSSA G. SPROTT Winterlust Oh, how I miss the frigid kiss of winter upon my skin! The cold air, that wind in my hair, a chilling frost gets in. To hide from yet hold, that bitter cold such a…
Poets from the World, Melyssa G. Sprott, USA
Calliope’s Voice
Creation, translation and transcreation in Rosenstock’s Sasquatch
From The Loneliness of the Sasquatch, transcreated by Amanda Bell from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock. Alba Publishing, 2018 appearing out of mist as from a dream strange creatures the sasquatch rubs her eyes will they flee on seeing me…
Turn of the Century
CLAUDIO SOTTOCORNOLA The 60s The 60s rolled by on a train the little American boy with his nose turned up in the air night fell mythological of stars in the sky … yeah-yeah songs… The “Knowledge” Encyclopedia taught Geography and…
Crisálida, Laurine Rousselet’s unique voice
GENEVIÈVE GUETEMME (edited by) French poet and writer Laurine Rousselet, has been injecting in her writing – from the very start – an inexhaustible energy to give to the words, sounds, rhythms and her unique voice a momentum leading to an…
The Path is Poetry
ABHAY K. Come Come as monsoon rains to a parched land of summer or softly as spring with new leaves and bird song come roaring as a volcano exuding plumes of gas and lava or shaking with great force as…
Each Side of the Solstice
ANTHONY MELLORS Relict Land Undead wych elms rise from cliffs pathless & unstable as if at this hour above the talus old gods wrestled their own myths at risk from fungal pathogens an ancient rowan rives through skeletal yew wild…
Poetry and Creation: Three Poems from The Golden Chain
SARA RUSSELL The Golden Chain (self-published by the author, Venice, 1970; bilingual English-Italian edition: Florence: Paideia, 1998, reprinted in 2001) is a selection of poems written between 1963 and 1969. I helped my father prepare the first bilingual edition for publication…