Cyrus Cassells’ six books are The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses,The Crossed-Out Swastika, and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo….
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The Heart’s Year Le coeur a ses saisons… May The treetops dance to a lively air. The crows are out, looking for trouble. The wind…
Poetry of Syria: Green Dreams in Red World Translated and introduced by Saleh Razzouk, Philip Terman and Murray Alfredson Syria gained independence from the French mandate in 1946, so…
God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s Banana Palace Copper Canyon, 2016 by Emilia Phillips “We used our texting machines / to look up the definition of soul,” Dana Levin begins…
To read, to read closely and be surprised, to study the craft and range a poet can teach us to reach toward, these are some of the deepest gifts that…
“Sight” (link below) isn’t pretty and neither is the music. A maddeningly dominant C pedal tone breaks only to underscore “They do not see the soft” and returns with “eyes…
Caribbean Poetry, as we know it, changed forever with the coming of Kwame. For a start, he is the embodiment of the African Jamaican, born as he was of Ghanaian…
Kwame Dawes. Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic. Peepal Tree Press, 1999, 2003, 2008. 296 pgs. I. Introduction I came late to Kwame Dawes’ ground-breaking work Natural Mysticism: Towards…
Amongst Kwame Dawes’ long list of achievements, the Calabash International Literary Festival, one of the best literature festivals anywhere on earth, an eagerly anticipated (now) biennial event that has won…
A urbane, grounded, naturalistic stylist, the power of his poetry has allowed him to implement numerous innovations in a region associated with formalism. Experiments with poetry and music / art installations / performance / video & even computer games, have seen his popularity soar in Latvia, though he remains a poet writing in Russian.
an interview with Sergej Timofejev ( Latvia ) by SJ Fowler