Farhad Bandesh Archives

OUT OF THE VOID: Voices from Detention (Yasaman Bagheri and Farhad Bandesh )

Verity La December 10, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …

Bloom (Les Wicks)May 31, 2019
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees ... Read More
The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)August 9, 2019
Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge without warning, crush soft bodies beneath. Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down. For seven years I decompose below your ... Read More
Java Suite (Mike Ladd)August 23, 2018
Under the transmitter towers a papaya garden receiving rain. A thousand silent swallows came. From you, no message. Feeling for the right stone in opaque water — fish-trap building. Banana tree — ... Read More