By Mike Jenkins Bending, stoopingThanking his nothingnessTongue-lolling, supplicatingBaby-showering with giftsAgreeing, agreeingWearing his required uniformFawning and favouringHis flatulent commentsBowing lower than for a kingTaking his taxesLike blows on... Continue reading
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Miles Pickering By Jim Aitken I have always supported Plasticine Actionever since attending nursery school.The teacher told the class all about it,explaining its importance and enabling usto... Continue reading
Aharon Haliva, ex-head of Israel’s military intelligence By Nick Moss There is a fascist logicThat echoes as white noiseIn every statementAbout small boats andMen from backward countrieswho... Continue reading
by Martin Hayes Marcus hasn’t been doing too well latelyhis woman left him last week and two months before thathis mother diedso his performance stats, which are... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi O tyrant heart, does pity not take root?Where olive branches weep beneath the flame,You silence mouths with famine’s iron boot—A crafted curse, yet call... Continue reading
‘Yes I think we [Welsh] rather love precipices, we go towards them, then withdraw… I think we all do, we Celts… …there was a second or two... Continue reading
‘It feels a dark kind of summer, in which prejudice is dressed in fuchsia and the political class shrug their shoulders while the angry mob grows. We... Continue reading
A prosepoem by Maria de Stefano Monteleone is a small agricultural hilltop town in the region of Puglia in southern Italy. During WW2 most of its men... Continue reading
By Dennis Broe The Netflix series Marked begins with a bang, an armoured car robbery from the point of view of the female driver Babalwa who eludes... Continue reading
it is 1985 and you’re 19 at Wembley dogsdrinking Hofmeister from a brown plastic bottleafter a shift answering phones at the mini-cab officeand there’s a hurdle race... Continue reading
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