INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ALISON BINNEY     Now when we watch TV there’s something making me sit upright, as if I have a python on my head, and I try to tell if you’ve noticed, but there’s no way of telling, you’re sitting still too but maybe there’s something...
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS SUJANA CRAWFORD

INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS SUJANA CRAWFORD

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SUJANA CRAWFORD     Here she is. Bobbling pigtails, chubby fists, a chariot of drunken legs. And here he is. A new crown of soft quills gauging the kilter of his reign, silky grass curtsying as he leads the way. Now she’s...
Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part Two

Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange 2024: Part Two

  It’s that time again! The annual Coventry-Cork poetry exchange is now in its sixteenth year. Later this month, for the second leg of the 2024 exchange, two talented poets – Catherine Ronan and Cédric Bikond Nkoma – will visit Coventry (UK) as representatives of...
Review: Ricky Ray’s ‘The Soul We Share’

Review: Ricky Ray’s ‘The Soul We Share’

Review: Ricky Ray, The Soul We Share (Fly on the Wall Press, 2024)   By Meg Freer   The Soul We Share, a new collection by American poet, essayist, and self-described mystic Ricky Ray, takes as its impetus his shared life with his beloved dog Addie, who...