By Steve Pottinger This poem would like to make it clearthat it is here to subvert nothing whatsoever,here to challenge nothing at all, that it wouldnever ever... Continue reading
There’s been a powerful poetic reaction to the genocidal acts by Israel in Gaza. Under the most difficult of circumstances, poets in Gaza have recorded their sense... 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
By Yahia Lababidi He who fights monsters should see to it that, in the process,he does not become a monster — Nietzsche Tell me, what steel entered... 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 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