The Free Gaza Circus By Rita Di Santo As Israeli airstrikes in Gaza continue, claiming lives and escalating tensions following the ceasefire—a recent strike on Nasser Hospital... Continue reading
By James O’Brien Take my hand then Hiba,To the Fields of Athenry,We’ll go then to the blackthorn,The hawthorn copse,Lay awhile, try and breathe,Try to survey heaven or... Continue reading
Image by Martin Gollan By Uzmah Ali After Manic Street Preachers S.Y.M.M. and Revol Run a finger along smooth sheetsCup on bedside tableSplay into a starfishStare at... Continue reading
Image by the author By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi The ovens of bread are cold as stone,Like graves unmarked, the fields lie prone.Children’s stomachs echo like drums,Hollow hymns where... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi You, butcher masked in flags of false defence,Whose bombs defile the wells and fields of grace,Your creed of fire reveals your impotence—A tyrant’s hand,... Continue reading
Commons image, CCA 2:0 By Steve Pottinger In the film ‘The Wild One’, the character played by Marlon Brando is askedwhat he’s rebelling against. His reply? “Whadda... 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
A Palestinian woman near the Israeli fence in Mas’Ha. By Cathal Ó SearcaighAfter Tawfiq Zayyad Here in Gaza, in Ramallah, in Galilee,we will perpetuate our kind, preserve our... Continue reading
A found poem by David Betteridge, made from sentences in a speech made by Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Geneva, 22nd... Continue reading