The Silent Space Given a choice by the gentleman, my third-grader sonelected to have me join him in the soundproofed roomto take his hearing test. Shy-seeming to the audiologisthis mother and I... Read more »
Four boys, maybe five⦠Four boys, maybe five, are shaking a car,their faces distorted by the thrill of destruction.Beneath its wheels lies an abyss.Inside the car is your son.The car tilts.Desolation all... Read more »
Good-bye The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye –The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge,The last thin rumour of a feeble bell far ringing,The last blind rat to spurn the... Read more »
The Journalist You are not there to weep.You are there because they are weeping.And the world must know. You are not there to show us how you care.You are there to show... Read more »
The Art of Cloying A book can be loved to death and not die.Look at how this one refuses to close. Place the weightof the world on it and it may stop... Read more »
Book News: Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction
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This collection is a debut â it is also an ending. The poet Gboyega Odubanjo died tragically almost a year ago and the final edit of this extraordinary and arresting book has... Read more »
It was the backdrop to a literary world of the lost Levant. Away from the sea, on a narrow street in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, 10 Rue Lepsius was the... Read more »
Highland Daunder Kestrel in ma chest: wheesht yersel —you belang here, amang th gorse n heather. Lat thaim ramble their een ower you —yer broun body stravaigin th glen isnae an unnatural... Read more »