The Song of the Blue Night
“I have painted/ The whole sky/ With coloured dust/ As you are coming.” Weekend poem, by Umakanta Mohapatra. Translated from Odia by Bibhudatta Mohanty.
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Poet of the Month: Hubert Moore
“In the UK, as things stand, poetry is too weak to bring change…” Hubert Moore, our Poet of the Month for August, talks to Camille Ralphs.
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What is poetry?
St. Lucian poet John Robert Lee asks the ‘What is Poetry?’ question, reaching the conclusion that every poem needs to contain truth, beauty and harmony.
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The Forest
“He stopped in his tracks and turned around. The bare, level and speckled trail rolled out far into the distance… Even if there were no moonlight, there was little chance of its disappearing…” Story of the Week (October 10), by Ikramullah. Translated from Urdu by Faruq Hassan and Muhammad Umar Memon.
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Contact
“We are always just this side/ of catastrophe, slightly shattered/ and taped whole by the love/ of those we do not fully/ comprehend…” Poem of the Week (October 7), by Kyla Pasha.
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New York… Harlem 1939
“Nothing has changed, nothing will,/ it’s all about money and bombs, this century.” Weekend poem, by McDonald Dixon.
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Laughing Gas: The Close-Up and Racial Spectacle
Chuck Williamson revisits Edwin S. Porter’s ‘Laughing Gas’ (1907), a film which ‘traffics in racial spectacle.’
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The Betrothed
“they seldom gave each other pleasure/and in vain they learnt patience and goodwill,/ in vain they taught their bodies…” Poem of the Week (September 30), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Blossom
“…the way it swells/ on the branches/ like flesh on bone, ballooning/ and sweet…” Weekend poem, by Jenny Danes.
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Author of the Month: Maria Pinto
“I try and try to constantly look at the world as if nothing is obvious, like children do. I mostly fail at that because the lens can’t help but harden as one gets older…” Maria Pinto, Author of the Month for August, talks to Santiago J. Sanchez.
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