a poem for moving on

Box Open it, push back its hinged lid. It’s easy, so much easierthan you thought. All you have to do … More

‘I heard the wind make music / from everything it touched’

Shostakovich The wind and its instruments were my secret teachers.In Podolskaya Street I played piano for my mother—note for note … More

Or not perhaps mistaken One could so easily mistake for loveOneself in a coloured glass(So, seeming new);Or explorationOf a roomOf … More

Butter My mother loves butter more than I do,more than anyone. She pulls chunks offthe stick and eats it plain, … More

Suibhne is Wounded, and Confesses There was a time when I thoughtthe sound of a dove cooing and flittingover a … More

even if we cannot yet see it. Here are two poems by Kei Miller. Both are taken from his collection, … More

Anseo, by Denise Chaila Glossary Anseo – the Irish for ‘here’. Typically used by students to mark presence in a roll … More

Scheherazade RICHARD SIKEN From Crush (Yale University Press, 2005). ◊◊◊ In Middle Eastern mythology, Scheherazade is the one who tells … More

EPITHALAMIUM For Joe and Annie Thomson For marriage, love and love alone’s the argument.Sweet ceremony, then hand in hand we … More

Miss Berry I have learnt to write rows of o’s bobbinghopeful as hot air balloons from the line’s tethers and … More