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Geoffrey Heptonstall

Poetry Comes From a Place That You Command

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Michael Howarth

Transformations – An experimentation of dissolving the sound and image of waves into lines

Theoni Androulidaki

Old Folk for New Poets - Part I

Fernando Fidanza

Old Folk for New Poets - Part II

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Vasiliki Poula

A quinate of questions for Titos Patrikios

Joude Bazzoun and Eponine Howarth

Refreezing the Arctic - In discussion with Hugh Hunt

January 2021

Leonard Cohen's Prince of Asturias Speech

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December 2020

Titanic's Last Menu

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November 2020

Illustrated diary entries by Federico Fellini

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You go and I will stay

Lucy Holme - Roberts

At first I assumed it was the motion. | The stomach lurch as I felt my way | along flickering hallways | with dark wood cabinets.

Selected notes from the past few years featuring Cohen

Eszter Bencsik

I woke up late. Looked out the small window overhead. The lights of the chapel on the other side of the driveway shone in through the heavy snowfall but it was dark otherwise.

A Chapter in the Book of Existence: Part II

Colby Torbett

Space has always fascinated me. It is both exhaustingly terrifying and magnificently beautiful. Our human minds are unable to comprehend its infinite size and our instincts drive us to never stop exploring it. We send probes and satellites and men into this great unknown so that we may map and understand that which we cannot see with our naked eyes. Our planet hurdles through a vacuum entirely uninhabitable to our kind.

Dancing in the Streets: Part III

Joe Wagner

After some help from strangers near the peak of their crossing, Neruda says, This I remember well, that when we sought to give the mountain dwellers a few coins in gratitude for their songs, for the food, for the thermal waters, for giving us lodging and beds, I would say for the unexpected refuge that came to us on our journey, our offering was rejected out of hand.

The Waltz of Missing Words

Eponine Howarth

In France, every edition of the Petit Larousse dictionary removes around five hundred words. Put differently, since Le Petit Larousse’s first edition in 1906, nearly ten thousand words have been withdrawn. Sure, plenty of new words have been added instead through time. But, don’t you also wonder what happened to the words that fell into disuse?

A Tale of Two Gustavs

Sonya Wohletz

Around the turn of the 20th century, two remarkable artists were working in Vienna whose contributions would bring to surface deep cultural tensions that had somehow remained buried and unresolved in the Western consciousness for thousands of years.

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A Series of Interlinked Essays

Writers are given the liberty to explore their ideas over a series of pieces. These ‘threads’ are woven together thematically or stylistically, and lightly but deftly touch on the feelings, objects, memories, and passions that pervade our days, crystallising them into psychological and artistic truth. They aim to "feel at each thread" of the mingled webs of our lives, as Pope says in his An Essay on Man: ‍ 'The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.'

A Column on Translation

From Greek boardings on the Testament, to English translations of the Arabian Nights, all saw translation as an inherent part of reading and thought. But isn’t translation a greater enterprise of stone shaped into verse, and colour turned into melody? Wasn’t Bernini translating in exquisite marble Daphne’s myth? Aren’t Garcilasos’ verses a melodic translation of Daphne's pain? Isn’t translation, then, the intimate fibre of the most subtle artistic creations? Paraphrasis is the column in which writers are invited to join the modest but arcane craft of the translator by translating and engaging with a piece of poetry, prose, visual arts or music.

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Transformations – An experimentation of dissolving the sound and image of waves into lines

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Old Folk for New Poets - Part I

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A quinate of questions for Titos Patrikios

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Refreezing the Arctic - In discussion with Hugh Hunt

Leonard Cohen's Prince of Asturias Speech

Titanic's Last Menu

Illustrated diary entries by Federico Fellini

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You go and I will stay

Selected notes from the past few years featuring Cohen

A Chapter in the Book of Existence: Part II

Dancing in the Streets: Part III

The Waltz of Missing Words

A Tale of Two Gustavs

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A Series of Interlinked Essays

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