MARIO NICOLAO And I hear my secret sea flood in, my hushed inner sea (‘Cicadas’, FL 171) a Homage to Agnostos Nomolos The Mediterranean contains many ghosts under the ceaseless to-ing and fro-ing of its green-blue waves. The ghost of…
This left hand of mine now packing this page with script and this right hand steadying the same page’s edge together reach out to your hands that hold and turn the same copy in another time entirely your own or…
Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec, in southeastern Kosova, in 1972 and graduated from Prishtina University in Oriental Studies. He actively works on Calligraphy, discovering new mediums and techniques for this specific form of plastic art. In the last ten…
«Poetry is a notoriously solitary business. In the popular imagination, poets are ensconced in draughty attics composing their great work, they very often seek inspiration in solitude and as often as not the resultant great work is read by people…
Jimmy Andrex was born and brought up in Wakefield and was educated at several schools which no longer exist! Despite this ominous start, he tries to find beauty and humour in the stories and conversations of the people around him.…
JOHN IRVING CLARKE Was it serendipity, coincidence or just sheer good fortune to be in the right place at the right time? Whatever, I happened to be in Mocca Moocho, a Wakefield café with a distinctly arts focussed air, when…
I poeti di Wakefield* We observe the Calder flow where boats are berthed around bollards with tight lines we observe the boats in the hour when those living in them water the flowers and remove dried leaves of solitude. We…
