Pterodactyl
We sail, loose-kneed over murky jade water towards Terrapin Point. Our blood-red ponchos cling to our bare arms. You…
The Story Behind Storysongs
The highly regarded poetry publisher Agenda has, exceptionally, produced a bilingual double-fronted hardback book of animal whimsies for children,…
Breathless In Jerusalem
Here in the Municipal Garden – all white paths and straggly flowers – asphalt’s hot beneath one’s feet, baked…
The 21st Century: The Moon Under Water
London, 1946: bombed buildings, bad food and black market spivs. While recent World War victory and Attlee’s new Welfare…
Words and Pictures
Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, 2015, 275 pp. £16.99 (paperback) Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on…
Slavic Ritual
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Bohumil Hrabal, trans. James Naughton, NYRB Classics, 2015, 320pp, £10.99 (paperback) …
81 Sturla Road
Poor world, the violet insect-o-cutor glow of streetlights on the fallen snow is something like my need of him…
The Memory Of Touch
A moth falling, landing in my lap, as she then says. ‘Don’t worry, they worry me too, these moths,…
Epithalamium, with Squirrels
for Liz and Bob Saw this, today, and thought of you two: there, not there, the quantum flicker of…
Being Kept by a Jackdaw
At a country fair a couple called Dave and Di Nelstrop Came from Bow, in Devon, to sell tansy…
No Filler, Only Killer
Where Have You Been? Selected Essays, Michael Hofmann, Faber & Faber, 2015, 304pp, £30 (hardback) The poet and…
Translucence
:with time the skin thins; we become more see-through as if the drip —————-of it, passing, was diluting us.…
In The Late Night Cafés Of Despair
I have waited for them, the uncommitted, the deceivers, in those strip-lit archipelagos of uncleared tables, ketchup bottles, smears…
The Blue Bench (a pantoum)
Just for a little while I thought it was you on an old blue bench in the park there…
Trodden Before
From a sequence inspired by a five-page factual report of an Irish Colonel in the Indian Army 1916-1946. …
Crossing the Border
The fields were sodden from four days of late February rain and the cold dawn air smoked to every…
Notes For Landscape Painters
Knoydart September 2014 Smooth the barbs of night with forsaken stars; snag the waning sea its mackerel feather…
The Cowsheds
An extract from Arcadian Nights, The Greek Myths Re-imagined, to be published by Duckworth on September 24th 2015 …
Math son of Mathonwy
A re-telling drawn from the Mabinogion It was back in the time in Britain when there were many rulers.…
It’s generally kind
I brought round books and then we just sat in the living room and watched a documentary on silver-backed…
The Cornucopias of Our Time
Eduardo Paolozzi, Judith Collins, Lund Humphries, 2014, 304pp, £45, 290 x 245 mm (hardback) Front and back cover showing BASH,…
Two Jokers
The Golden Age of Smoking, John Hartley Williams, Shoestring Press, 2014, 79pp, £10 (paperback) Twentyone Men and a Ghost,…
My London
Alessandro is the twelfth writer in the My London series. He is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and…
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