I've put together 50 of my previously published poems along with poems I wrote when I was a resident poet at a hospital in England. The result is my first collection - 'Of All the Places'.
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All the Eating
She is the Cronos of the tiny plaza restaurant. She spills out of her seat, over leaning shopping bags placed to be seen. She spews smoke undeterred by coughs, from closeby tables stares, shaking heads. Complains about the wine. Bring me another then! Nail tapping on the new bottle crackling in ice. Next to her, the prince of Florence on his i-phone, flicking back blonde hair, not looking up, not eating. She does all the eating for everyone. Adult Play in Berlin A rare thing in a city resisting: a cafe that offers wifi. Silence. The e-junkies all tapped into elsewheres, chunky power packs slapped down like foundation stones for a New World Order. Rapid ticking thumbs, barely blinking, faces sucked into the screen, sitting inside or outside. Only hushed talking from those not converted, embarrassed to use Old School voices not fingers. The waiter struggles out a smile, a few words of an old alphabet as he feeds the addicted flamkucken. At the end of the street, the Freidrichshain Volkspark, screams of playing children. Published in Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, December 2018. |
Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
March 2024
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