I AM SEVENTY SEVEN I am Seventy Seven, yes, I am old as they say, grey hair, receding hair line and chin with folds but what shall I do to the moons in my eyes, the glint, the glow, the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) MADIBA* Did you see the moon trembled? A leaf fell down the tree. I believed you could become a bridge Between me and the universe. I’m not colorful And I know I have bright rights written…
BEE LINES The golden bees are making sweet honey From all my old failures —Antonio Machado, transl. Robert Bly In a rough grass patch by a leaning silver birch these boxes left as if in mid-move two raised on a…
ANDERS DAHLGREN Early in my life I became interested in archaeology and as this was long before Indiana Jones swung his bullwhip on the screen, I guess it was my upbringing, the trips we made to the Mediterranean world that…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) WHO GIVES LIGHT When you look at me my eyes turn into keys, the wall has secrets, my fear has words, poems. Only you make out of my memory a fascinated traveller, an incessant fire. ***…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) It doesn’t stop`raining now and the noise which enters isn’t only of the water. Paolo Bertolani You never had white hair they were just threads fallen from your sweater I absently picked them up in the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) SUNDAY REST No twitter no face book no emails no messages Smarter than the smartest smartphone: Silence. GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT Pognana, Lake Como, Italy, Sunday 7th June 2015 POINT Editions: poems from the world’s best known and unknown…
Once my great grandfather sent a postcard from Vienna with the Prater on and wrote, “A must-see!” And my mother, who did not keep the postcard, but remembers the story and remembers dreaming of Vienna speaks to me of this…
FRANCES FAHY Kallerbay is a five-year English reading and drawing project for 6 – 11 year-olds. We intend to publish weekly short stories in written and audio form on the www.kallerbay.com website over the next five years. Stories written in…
SARAH LEAH COBHAM It was the evening before I travelled to Georgia. Hot and humid, the underground was unbearable so I was glad to walk to Russell Square along tree-lined avenues. Other Georgiophiles soon arrived at the Embassy. We were…
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. In the 60th anniversary of his death we want to remember the French philosopher and…
SHE OWL. After having been on tour for two years to promote our debut album She Owl, at the end of a marvellous European tour that took us to Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy with 17 gigs, we chose a…
JOHN I. CLARKE In the crowded dining hall, even with the big screen showing pop videos, Melanie’s assault on two fellow students caused something of a stir. It was afterwards in my office that the full extent of the provocation…
Laura Fo’s little theatres GIANFRANCO EVANGELISTA (edited by) Theatre, Theatre and Theatre again. Theatre, as an illusion and as a source of inspiration, as commitment, work and construction of an idea, becomes the pyrotechnical vent of an artist who has…
