Polishing The Evidence John Ashbery

Polishing The Evidence John AshberyIn Polishing the Evidence, Cecilia McGovern returns in many poems to her roots, as a child involved in the seasonal grind of farm work in Mayo. This closeness to earth is a reminder of the struggle for survival of previous generations, a struggle never referred to directly by anybody, that results for her in an ambivalent relationship with the landscape. The reticence about the past includes and is partly a consequence of the loss of the Irish

like prayer and other holy forms

before the final dramatic showdown in Chinatown

Vesna Lemaic

are trying to make sense of the brutal century from which we have emerged and the uncertain one into which we are still tentatively trespassing

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar

play writing

Fawzi Karim Selected Poems

Alun Brady was a bit of a mummy’s boy

Plagiarism

also remarked on "the edge of humour

Lebanese-Palestinian Nabil Abu Hamad with an excerpt from The Cripple

Editorial – Is there going to be a third issue