JOHN IRVING CLARKE The sycamore sapling sited on the curve of the carefully chosen soft grass verges route in the park. Twice the scene of a near-hit as the cycle wobbled the bend, foreshadowing a cartoon image of a man chasing…
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Germain Droogenbroodt’s The Road of Being
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT SMART PHONE In the waiting room sits a large number of travelers. With one notable exception, all of them are busy with a little thing called smart phone that fascinates them all the time. With two thumbs at…
The Blue House – Five more unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 6 Winter is back And it reminds me of myself Before I met you. 7 The house where we had lived for years it was now empty and deserted without a piece of furniture. We walked on the…
Follow the Anxiety of the Wind – Five unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 1 …therefore let’s go back to the shadow of the branch Or let’s follow the sharp scent of drunken flowers Next to the stone, an improvised altar, To cross the talkative time of silences To forget the gossip…
Two poems from The Wine Cup: Twenty-Four Drinking Songs for Tao Yuanming
RICHARD BERENGARTEN The evening star Hey, we’ve got a guitar. So let’s have a song. Once we’re sozzled we can totter off home. You sang old songs. I strummed on a guitar. We reminisced. We mixed up fact and fable.…
Arboreal Poems from China’s Classic of Poetry
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY The Classic of Poetry is the oldest collection of poetry from China, with 305 poems in total from the beginning of the Zhou dynasty (1045-256 BCE), the oldest from about 1000 BCE, the youngest from about 600…
In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights
SILVIA PIO This is a unique anthology, published in 2013 and sprung from the collaboration between the Human Rights Consortium and the Institute of English Studies, both from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Keats House…