An Ocean of Static Craig Smith

An Ocean of Static Craig SmithFrom the late 15th century onwards, a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish, the fabled Northwest Passage, and beyond into the territories purely imaginary. Today, this vast expanse is crisscrossed with ocean and wind currents, submarine cables and wireless signals, seabirds and passengers, static and cargo ships. In her long awaited poetry debut, award winning digital writer and artist J. R. Carpenter transforms the

quizzical responses to the strange

The poets whose work is collected in this vibrant and exciting collection of contemporary Irish poetry belong to a group that meets regularly in University College Dublin (the name 'Thornfield' being linked to one of the university buildings)

I take a Manorbier pebble

so British

Leasungspell is a narrative epic poem about a pre-Modern world

Jon Hendricks

What Vanishes contains four sections: poems of place and displacement set in such far-flung locales as Budapest

Ounsi el-Hage: Last stanzas of The Messenger with her Hair Long to the Springs

Bewketu Seyoum

Liana Badr

Leon Priestnall is something quite rare on the Spoken Word circuit – a romantic

of the imagination can look like