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POETRY IN THE MINEFIELDS (Iraqi poets translated by Haider Catan and Tim Heffernan)

Verity La May 30, 2017 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

(edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) An Extract from the Introduction to The Poetry in the Minefields By Abdulrahman Almajedi, Iraqi journalist and poet living in the Netherlands Organizers of …

And Now, Tenderness (David Adès)November 9, 2018
And now, tenderness, should it come, should it ever come again, unsolicited, from an unexpected quarter, should it be felt and recognised, will break over me like a wave, dissolving ... Read More
Parentheses (Shastra Deo)February 13, 2018
stitch our disunion into the gutshot —split my belly, suture. spare me your hand and bandage. kneel: your thighs bracket my hips as you etymologise me. anatomy of my ... Read More
The Laundromat (Diane Josefowicz)September 10, 2019
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) Once upon a time, I made a wish, an uncareful wish, in the Harder Laundromat. I wanted to throw a party for my students. Since September, ... Read More