Dustin Pickering. Photograph by permission of the author Sheaf of Weeping Be still my raven with beating wingslest the ashes of solitude value the clustersof unbecoming.I am taken by lackluster jewelsunder the sands of rumor.Your eyes will hide the livid saint. * The leaves broken in the nightwith ink-ridden hands,trusted…
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Poetry
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The President’s Feast
Belshazzar’s Feast Rembrandt, National Gallery, Public Domain Christmas is a time of feasting and self-indulgence for the lucky and powerful. For most of the world it is a time of hardship and starvation. And so it has always been. In the Bible, the story of Belshazzar’s Feast (in the Book…
Isabel del Rio
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Isabel del Rio: Four Poems
Isabel del Rio. Photograph Isabel del Rio On adoptive language speak we should but maywe be spared the blemish ofrepudiating the first syllables uttered, the familiarcooing from those closest, all those wordsthat should have been said but are nowexchanged for extraneous soundsin a separate and sometimes dissenting language, no,there are…
Charles Bronson
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Lo social es humano / The social is human
Charles Bronson (prisoner). Image generated with WordPress Two poems by Ulises Paniagua / Dos poemas de Ulises Paniagua Charles entre nosotros Tú eres Charles Bronson , con la existencia untada de manteca desnudaluchando contra el sistemaYo soy Charles Bronson, ave nocturna que se raja la caraante los derruidos gobernantesÉse que…
AI
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DUMAH
Screenshot from Yogesh Patel’s new poetry film, Dumah The Demands of the Art of Making a Poetry Film Using AI by Yogesh Patel “Thunderbirds are go,” I command myself when the creative current hits. It’s an almost primeval surge—the familiar, heady rush of a launch sequence. Just like the nostalgic…
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Two Poems
A Storm A storm is brewing. Rain is sudden, heavy, falling with shadows, a thunder of echoes on the horizon. The summer air is thick and slow, waiting to be moved by a long awaited wind. Soon, raised hands will feel the change of the breeze, and breaths will taste…
Art
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Eve J Hall: Two Tall Trees
Two Tall Trees, drawing by Eve J Hall (2019) . Two Tall Trees . There’s a window in the bathroom and if you stand at the bottom of the stairs you can see 2 tall trees through it. And if you walk 2 steps up you can see the leaves…
Centenary
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Polish up your alien / techniques of observation, / while the city burns.’
Nissim Ezekiel On the birth centenary of Nissim Ezekiel and his impact on Indian poetry in English by SUDEEP SEN 1. I want to talk about Nissim Ezekiel, purely from a practising Indian poet’s point of view, and not as an academic or literary historian. I first met Nissim Ezekiel…
5th International Colloquium on Poetry and Philosophy
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INTERVIEW WITH THE POET CARLOS KATAN
Carlos Katan 5th International Colloquium on Poetry and Philosophy —with ULISES PANIAGUA Hello, good day. Let’s begin this interview. The first thing I want to ask is: Do you have a defined concept of what poetry is? Have you managed to arrive at your own definition through reading and writing…
Anjana Neira Dev
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Nissim Ezekiel: Between Desire and Reason
Nissim Ezekiel, illustration A Tribute to the Herald of Modern Indian English Poetry by Anjana Neira Dev As we commemorated Nissim Ezekiel, the herald of modernity in Indian English poetry; on his hundredth birthday, and enter a season of heat and dust and of course the king of fruits, I…
FOUR GHAZALS
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Sudeep Sen: FOUR GHAZALS
Photo by Kaboompics.com Monsoon Apertures Each drop scripts a silence I cannot explain — the monsoon writes letters across my windowpane. Your absence is not void, but a humid breath — it stains my shirt-collar like turmeric or rain. Even the wind hesitates before touching me — a lover once…
Peter Cowlam
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Podcast: Follow Me Down
Photo by Alex Fu on Pexels.com by Peter Cowlam Words by Peter Cowlam; music composed by Jamie Roberts and released under CC0 licensing; effects curated by Jamie Roberts, and courtesy freesound.org. Original voice recording by Jeff Lowe, and studio production by Jamie Roberts. ‘Follow Me Down’ is a forty-eight-line poem….
1950s
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The Emigrant’s Farewell
photo by Daniel Battersby, pexels by J. W. Wood The following extract is taken from J. W. Wood’s major long-form poem, The Emigrants Farewell. published in 2016 by The High Window and dedicated to Thomas and Sheena Smith, A Scottish-Canadian poet, Wood is the author of the collection The Anvil’s Prayer (2013) and…
Cartografía en fuga
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Yuleisy Cruz Lezcano: Cartografía en fuga / Cartography in Flight
Yuleisy Cruz Lezcano, photo Yuleisy Cruz Lezcano Yuleisy Cruz Lezcano, who participated in the Colloquium on Poetry and Philosophy organised by Ulises Paniagua, was born on the island of Cuba and currently lives in Italy, where she studied at the University of Bologna. A poet, writer, and translator, she has published numerous books….
Martín Tonalméyotl
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Martín Tonalméyotl in Náhuatl, Spanish & English
Dentro de los ecos del Coloquio Internacional de Poesía & Filosofía, compartimos dos poemas de Martín Tonalméyotl, en náhuatl y en su traducción al español (en la versión del propio autor). Los poemas pertenecen a la antología “Otro mundo en la Tierra”, compilada por Ulises Paniagua (Corazón de Diablo Ediciones, 2023)….
Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago
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Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago in Mixteco, Spanish & English
Dentro de los ecos del Coloquio Internacional de Poesía & Filosofía, compartimos dos poemas de Celerina Sánchez en idioma tu’un ñuu savi (mixteco) y en su traducción al español (en la versión de la propia autora). Los poemas pertenecen a la antología “Otro mundo en la Tierra”, compilada por Ulises Paniagua…
a retirement home for gods
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Yogesh Patel: a retirement home for gods
From poet’s forthcoming collection, 2½: Theatre of the Absurd.
Peter Cowlam
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Peter Cowlam: 3 Poems
Peter Cowlam Cultivations Things over here are only intimations,flickers, non-lucent, light as obfuscation,detail vanishing in air. The gardens do not deserve the fate we havedesignated, emptied of the beings who madethem. They have gone. Their flora I cannot name,and no one is called back, not from the two-lanerutted tracks repeating…
Karl Rutlidge
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Two New Malden Poets: Evensong & Psalm
photo Karl Rutlidge I’ve been working on a poem for a while to try and capture the grief I’ve felt following the Supreme Court ruling and its aftermath, and an experience of God I had while spending time in Regent’s Park, which is where this photo was taken. For context,…
Arun Kapil
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Fridge-Door Alchemy
Close-up of spicy anda bhurji (scrambled eggs) fresh from an Indian street vendor, photo Arun Kapil Cooking With Your Whole Soul Without So Much As a Dicky Bird by Arun Kapil The best meals don’t come from perfect conditions. They come from panic. From 6:42 p.m. fridge-staring, teeth on edge,…
Colin Dardis
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Peter Adair’s Hospital Poems
With visitors Colin Dardis @rancid.idols and Geraldine O’Kane @geraldine_okane_poet. The vast hospital site merges with the hills which, one day, will reclaim man’s ephemeral buildings. Not just yet. Thanks to all who sent me their well wishes during my eight weeks in hospital. They helped me through an incarceration that…
Al-ghazal
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Kathryn A. Kopple: Al-ghazal
Green Mountains Photo Moustafa Elsamadouni, Pexels We are pleased to keep company with Kathryn Kopple, who is a poet and novelist, and runs the literary blog The Leaving Years. Two of her published novels are Little Velásquez and The Leaving Year. She has previously collaborated with AN’s literary editor Peter Cowlam in the…
Argentina
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Luis Benítez
. ”The Argentinian poet, narrator and essayist Luis Benítez’s poems presented here show him to be an acutely political writer who captures the pulse of his time with unflinching candour. He writes about “assassins who are not so far away as they wait in the belly of the same horse…
Photography
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POET-PORTRAITS
‘Meditation’ (2024) Copyright photograph by Sudeep Sen (inspired by photographs shot by poet Sudeep Sen in Bhutan, June 2024) . by JHILAM CHATTARAJ an ekphrastic poem . Far, in the plains, sun-sleeved daylight ushers a cool, cobalt evening— . an echo of a word-shepherd chanting hymns across hypnotic hills….
Julian Stannard
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TWO NEW POEMS BY JULIAN STANNARD
Tobleronia Looking out of the windowlooking at the snowmade you feel drowsy.The train trundled along.You dozed off.You were asleep for too long.You missed that little villageon the hillwith its glühwein and chocolate fruit.You missed the Toblerone factoryand the ornate clock.You missed the Kunst Halleand the Rathouse.The train crossed the Rhine,crossed…
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