A Few More Sunrises Yet Before It Ends – Selected Poems by Martin Hayes (Broken Sleep Books, 2025), 359pp By Alan Morrison A Few More Sunrises Yet... Continue reading
By Ellis Poole I’m eighty two and counting and my prospects may be short,I’ve never had to pay a fine, I’ve never been to court.My father was... Continue reading
Image by Martin Gollan By Owen Gallagher Who’d have thought a cozy of knitters of lambswool scarvesand skirts, whose works of art were packedand dispatched to Barbour... Continue reading
Palestinian child arrested by Israeli soldiers By James O’Brien You don’t have to die to be dead,The blueprints are a shroud dripping with glee,Watch enough murder corpses... Continue reading
I thought they were slightly incomprehensible comments that were totally inappropriate. It doesn’t disturb me, because it’s actually proof that we live in a country where free... Continue reading
An uncomical prosepoem by Nick Moss 1. Thousands of them. Flags draped around their shoulders like rain-soused superhero capes. But not real DC or Marvel comic superheroes.... Continue reading
By Omar Sabbagh What’s so good about it? A man said.The world we live in is steeped in the bloodof innocents, the frail mathematicsof force majeure, where... Continue reading
A prosepoem and image by Abdulghani Al-Shuabi The work gathers me, not as a master gathers his servant, but as the tide gathers the shore—unceasing, insistent, shaping.... Continue reading
Image: Burak Bir By Steve Pottinger Mumble a mantra about flags.Anyone can do this, and it need notbe done well. Is better when it isn’t.We stand for... Continue reading
By John O’Donoghue Alan Morrison is the author of twelve poetry collections, and founding editor of The Recusant and Militant Thistles webzines. His thirteenth book, The Alderbank... Continue reading