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

Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:33

'The life I lived was a woman's life': Eavan Boland, one of Ireland's finest poets

Written by Jenny Farrell

in Poetry

Jenny Farrell remembers the life and work of the late Eavan Boland Eavan Boland died on 27 April 2020. She ranks among Ireland’s finest poets, and was one of the foremost female voices in Irish poetry. She was born in Dublin in 1944, her father a diplomat and her mother…

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 18:39

Guerilla Christ

Written by Gabriel Rosenstock

in Poetry

Guerilla Christ, By Alfredo Rostgaard féachann sé isteachi gcroí gach caipitlí -Críost treallchogaí he sees into the heartof every capitalist -guerrilla Christ he seis intae the herto ilka capitalist -guerrilla ChristLeagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald 資本家の心を見入るゲリラの（救世）主Leagan Seapáiníse: Mariko Sumikura

Good Friday Crucifixion Resurrection

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 14:27

Pietà

Written by Fran Lock

in Poetry

Pietà After the mural by Maxo Vanka by Fran Lock we have held him too, and wept our reticentalchemy. have worn our aura of knives. haverocked these cumbersome puppets: sons, brothers, fathers, all our lovely waywardvanguard. a ventriloquist’s doll, death madeof him. we have covered our hair. we have entered…

Good Friday Crucifixion Resurrection

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 07 April 2020 20:19

'Prayers to the environment': Jane Burn on nature, her writing, her life - and her new book

in Poetry

Written by Fran Lock

Fran Lock interviews Jane Burn, author of Yan, Tan, Tether (Indigo Dreams Press, 2020) Fran: Thank you so much for agreeing to answer these few questions about your latest collection of poems and illustrations, Yan, Tan, Tether. I’m really excited to do this interview with you, firstly because both the…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 03 April 2020 08:10

Markham Main

in Poetry

Written by Sarah Wimbush

Markham Main by Sarah Wimbush Afternoons, they meet upon street corners like old youths planning revolution. Gaffers, fathers, brothers -an hour at the Club with a pint.Go over the end again, and again. How they were the last by three daysto stay out in Yorkshire.How they’d gu back tomorra. After…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:39

Covid-19: The General Speaks of His Sorrow

in Poetry

Written by Gabriel Rosenstock

A poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, with image by Otto Dix called Wounded Soldier Covid 19: The General Speaks of His Sorrow by Gabriel Rosenstock Self-isolation . . .These bitter days When can I send battalionsOf raw young menTo warTo crush their bonesAnd the bones of others…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:33

Questions From The Dead

in Poetry

Written by K. Satchidanandan

Questions from the Dead by K. Satchidanandan Which country’s border was Hiuen Tsang crossing when, on a donkey, he crossed the Himalayan pass with a sack full of Buddhist texts? Whence came the races that spokeDravidian and Aryan tongues? Was there no one in Indiawhen they landed here? Not even…

Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:46

A Fearless Gaze of Hope: Quines, by Gerda Stevenson

Written by Jim Aitken

in Poetry

Jim Aitken reviews a book of radical women’s voices: Quines, by Gerda Stevenson. Accompanying illustrations of textiles are by artists from EDGE: Textile Artists Scotland. The second edition of Gerda Stevenson’s ‘Quines’ came out with some fanfare as it was launched to coincide with International Women’s Day. The launch at…

Edge Textile Artists

Wednesday, 25 March 2020 08:31

In The White Man’s Clinic

Written by Kevin Higgins

in Poetry

On the day the Irish government announced they are (for the duration of the crisis) incorporating all private hospitals into the public health system, Kevin Higgins offers this poem in memoriam of Ireland's two tier health system which will hopefully never come back. It was inspired by a private hospital,…

Coronavirus

Sunday, 08 March 2020 09:44

Capital and Christ's message: For Ernesto Cardenal

Written by Chris Norris

in Poetry

Chris Norris presents a poem in honour of Ernesto Cardenal (1925 – 2020) Ernesto Cardenal, who died on March 1st this year, was a Nicaraguan poet, Marxist, Catholic priest and lifelong left activist who fought a protracted campaign against the more conservative wing of Catholic religious and social doctrine. When…

Ernesto Cardenal

Monday, 24 February 2020 13:20

Questioning Capitalism: The Climate Matters Anthology 2020

Written by Sally Flint

in Poetry

Sally Flint calls for submissions to this new anthology of poems, stories, science writing and images, a collaboration between Culture Matters and Riptide Journal (University of Exeter) ‘We are only the trustees for those who come after us.’ - William Morris In 2020 we want to publish a collection of…