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5:02 pm by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 2, Issues, Poetry
night slams down a sky
as lid on this sinful kettle,
burning us here
in this hell we live in
seething in our own stink,
this sweaty nothingness
we live in
sin
David McLean was born in Wales in 1960 though he’s lived in Sweden since 1987. He has been submitting seriously for about a year and, as of the end of October 2007, he has around 325 poems in or accepted by 143 magazines both online and in print. A chapbook “a hunger for mourning” with 52 poems is available from Erbacce press and Lulu at http://storeslulu.com/store
7:00 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 1, Issues, Poetry
The telephone rings
A small thing, a sound
Ordinary, and she reaches for it
In an ordinary way
She says hello
Her mind on the children
Her mind on the meeting
Her mind on the dinner on
Saturday night, his friends from
Kansas, she says hello
She says hello.
I love you, he says (more…)
5:00 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 1, Issues, Poetry
R–U–OK?
Yeah–Yeah
I txt back
before adding another dozen lines to my
essay. There’s a scrap of paper beside me (more…)
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Desire and Madness – a collected anthology from Gloucestershire University’s creative writing students.
Desire and Madness is a simple enough premise – and as themes go, its pretty well represented throughout the works of a diverse range of students. Eighteen separate, and sometimes disparate, yet compelling voices that cover prose, poetry, and one rather interestingly [...]
The telephone rings
A small thing, a sound
Ordinary, and she reaches for it
In an ordinary way
She says hello
Her mind on the children
Her mind on the meeting
Her mind on the dinner on
Saturday night, his friends from
Kansas, she says hello
She says hello.
I love you, he says
Review – Blood
Blood, by Nigel McLoughlin is beyond words. Moving, deeply riveting, and most of all standing as both a marker (for lessons learned, in discussion of terrorism through poetry) and inspiration.
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Heart medicine - for writers
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