Deeply
“In the middle of the night I woke/ To no more voices no more laughter/ Only sky lanterns…” Weekend poem, by Manuel Bandeira. Translated from Portuguese by the 2015 City University Literary Translation Summer School.
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Interstice
“We did not know/ That power does not grow/ From the barrel of a clenched fist…” Poem of the Week (September 15), by George Goddard.
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Lover’s Discourse – an exhibition in five rooms
“…a collection of things etc that could but won’t express themselves, including: a tiny tin bell without a clapper; a sickly animal that pretends to be healthy…” Weekend Poem, by Neele Dellschaft.
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Eucalyptus in Rain
“…your hands on my freshly painted door/ They smell of this poem, which they call beautiful…” Poem of the Week (September 8), by Arup K. Chatterjee.
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Raiding Party
“…I miss the old days,/ Now it’s all crowds at airports, refugee camps;// The world decamped,/ With nowhere to go.” Weekend Poem, by Jeremy Wikeley.
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Lahore
“So hurry, dye those duppatas, dot those elegant paisleys,/ So place those fraying jasmine wreathes/ round delicate wrists…” Poem of the Week (September 2), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Paranoia and Prudery are compatible coordinates in the exact plane of deliverance
“It will deny and deny, as if/ Paranoia comes with plumed fluorescent feathers./ As if prudery is self-acknowledging.” Weekend poem, by Divya Rajan.
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Morning and Afternoon,
“night pushes at// the stars, at what/ we hope survives…” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Tom Montag.
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On missing the family
“This is how he remembers his family,/ this is how he misses them. Meanwhile,/ just outside the dingy rented room they/ still go on fighting…” Weekend poem, by Souradeep Roy.
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Bengali Chain
“I see us as we were, a couple, standing in a wound…/Thin strips of heat peel off the gutted pavement…” Poem of the Week (August 21), by Thomas C. Dunn.
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