Poetry

Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Factions
Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:27

Factions

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Factions by Fran Lock / late diagnosis. it's a language of dragnets and factions./ contractions and stammers. his slack-jaw gravitates./ to globalized consciousness. this corporate scorn, and sweet-talk./ drilled into flat writs. king stephen in the courts of contempt./ steel mesh over the eye. oscillating spotlights. yoke and arrows./ there…
Review of 'Out of Gaza - New Palestinian Poetry', edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison
Monday, 25 March 2024 10:16

Review of 'Out of Gaza - New Palestinian Poetry', edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison

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Nick Moss reviews Out of Gaza - New Palestinian Poetry, edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison, Smokestack Books 2024 “Palestinian poetry, including from within Gaza and outside it, but engaging with the plight of Gaza and the Palestinians more widely, stands as voices of resistance , remembrance and commemoration…
Midnight Boxcar Poetry
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 25 March 2024 09:44

Midnight Boxcar Poetry

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Midnight Boxcar Poetry by Fred Voss Sometimes I feel I should tell all the men in this buildingI write poemsabout themtheir smilestheir hammers their larger-than-life laughs bouncing offthe 70-foot-high factory ceiling like they should be heardby all the worldbut somehowit would be like putting a beautiful wild Bengal Tigerin a…
Communism
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 22 March 2024 14:49

Communism

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Communism by Jade Welburn Capitalism Ain't the vision That I would like to see! Community action An organised faction Is what we need to be! Liberalism All this division Is a catastrophe! Socialism The people arisen Is where we need to be! Communism Is the vision That I can foresee!
Words
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 22 March 2024 14:34

Words

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Words by Anne Irwin If the undead populated the world would there be no poetryno blue stream binding words no soft flow of dreams connecting. Would words be hollow unable to capture the twist and turnsof experience.Would words only justify intent. Could the undead commandeerhuman land and homes could they…
Village Yard
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 22 March 2024 14:13

Village Yard

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Village Yard by Vivien Freeman Good afternoon, my name's Octavia. I welcome all new residents,help you to settle in. I know that I can trust you to respectthis property, care for it and keep it clean. It's also an historic building, part of our heritage. Yours too now,as you will…
Until Further Notice
Friday, 22 March 2024 10:31

Until Further Notice

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Until Further Notice by Mark Cassidy the sky will be yellow. Regardless how you squint at it, tomorrow shrivels up and men in branded, hi-vis tabards will have permission. Don’t ask what for, or why, or seek to demonstrate some other way. There are new laws they’re not afraid to…
Georgian Graffitti
Wednesday, 20 March 2024 13:26

Georgian Graffitti

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Georgian Graffiti by John Short On walls in Georgiathere are anti-Russian slogansnot everyone embraces but it’s reasonable to supposethere is no love lost here. Some bars in Tbilisi requireRussians to sign a formdenouncing Putin as criminalbefore their entrance. In Gori, birthplace of Stalinthere are museum photosof bodies in the streetduring…
STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush
Saturday, 16 March 2024 10:52

STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush

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While in the belly of Englandthe strike to end all strikes erupts. Whether Churchill or Göring said it first, the adage goes that history is written by the victors. And yet certain dates that denote calamitous defeat remain and will not go gently, even though what actually took place and…
Gaze on Gaza
Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:00

Gaze on Gaza

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Gaze on Gaza by Stuart McFarlane, with image above by Martin Gollan Gaze on Gaza; and weep. See the child in A and E, the child, alone, in A and E. See the man who stares, the man who only stares. See the woman who screams, the woman who only…
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