Rebecca Ruth Gould Archives

On Leaving Iran (Rebecca Ruth Gould)

Verity La September 27, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, New, Poetry

The plane ascends. Women disrobe, crossing into Turkey’s airspace. Their hair cascades like waterfalls. I lift my skirt to let my legs breathe. So much sin is compressed between my …

HOME, LAND AND LONGING: Tangea Tansley’s A Question of BelongingSeptember 20, 2019
Reviewed by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Between 1976 and 1992 the country of Mozambique was torn asunder by civil war as the Frelimo nationalist movement fought for independence ... Read More
Blemished (Andy Jackson)October 30, 2018
Blemished from the Rabbinic scriptures and a Buzzfeed article A hunched back could be a misshapen eyebrow. Withered could also be dwarf. Some of our problems are to do with ... Read More
The Give (Indigo Perry)August 20, 2019
It’s the give of the earth: a shifting of clods under her running feet. Most of the children’s graves in the cemetery are marked with stones with names and dates ... Read More