Thank you to Colin Ward a fellow author who invited me over to his blog for an interview about my books. Fancy a read? Go over to In As Many WORDSHERE

Bio: Patricia Walsh was born and raised in the parish of Mourneabbey, Co Cork, Ireland. To date, she has published one novel, titled The Quest for Lost Eire, in 2014, and has published one collection of poetry, titled Continuity Errors, with Lapwing Publications in 2010. She has since been published in a variety of print and online journals across Ireland, The UK, USA, and Canada. She has also published another novel, In The Days of Ford Cortina, in August 2021.

The Thumbed Nose Absorbing caffeine in a milky touch, Working at random, the typewriter stuck, Ersarz painting styles run through slipshod Artisan cold perspectives over the picking up. This groovy thing, who will be her man? Nothing above order, painting the alphabet Allergens noticing the hardcore victory OfFinally recognizing the good stuff, interested. Colder than residual fire, the rhyming fake Walking back to the coalface, supply and demand The ease…

Bio: Nolcha’s poems have been curated in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Alien Buddha Zine, Medusa’s Kitchen, and others. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net. Editor for Open Arts Forum and Chewers & Masticadores. Accidental interviewer/reviewer. Faker of fake news.

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*Writer’s Notes: I started a 30-day challenge of writing poems, where the first and last lines are from someone’s published poem(s). I hope you’ll consider these poems from the challenge as a poetry showcase.

Postures

Love’s old postures appear
in an old black-and-white movie,
Cigarettes poised to kiss pouting lips.
The close-ups, the longing
of two lovers parting,
The credits roll by
with the spring lethargy of a lover.


Thanks to Jules Gibbs poem, “X,” for the first and last linesDinner I could rest a dinner set on…

Bio: Frogg Corpse is a poet, vocalist, actor, & photographer in the Louisville and Southern Indiana Area. Frogg has written a plethora of poems whilst fronting metal bands in the Southend of Louisville. Select highlights of his career in the arts include auditioning for American Idol & The Voice, working in Las Vegas with magician Criss Angel and actor Eric Roberts, writing a blog for 48 Hour Books, performing alongside spoken word artist Suli Breaks and Brandon Leake from America’s Got Talent. Since 2014 Frogg has performed annually at Gonzofest, a Louisville event that celebrated the legacy of Gonzo Journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Recently Frogg’s poem ” The Night Two Lovers Leapt” placed second in the 2023 Literary Edition of LEO Weekly. Recent theatrical work includes working backstage as well as acting in Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest (Company OutCast) as well as production work on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance…

photo from pixabay (geralt)

Bio: Edilson Afonso Ferreira, 79 years, is a Brazilian poet who writes in English rather than in Portuguese. Widely published in selected international literary journals in print and online, he began writing at age 67, after his retirement from a bank. Since then, he counts 185 poems published, in 295 different publications. Has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2017, and his first Poetry Collection, Lonely Sailor - One Hundred Poems - was launched in London in 2018. His second book “Joie de Vivre – Caressing our Joy”, with fifty new poems, has been launched in April 2022. He is always updating his works at www.edilsonmeloferreira.com. (185/295 … often, one poem first published in a literary journal is later republished in another one)

Dreaming of a new World I dreamed that there were no borders or barriers, and everyone was coming and going all over. No…

from DREAM THEORIES

I

xxxxxxthe moon dictates

nudges us forwardsxxxxxxreacts to

the cerebral entanglement

of what might be magicalxxxxxxmight be

an alternative existence

a personal thingxxxxxxdominates

the square edges

of a loosely-drafted altercation

between observers

lined up for tonight’s

transit of Venus

visions create a very personal thing

we’ve groomedxxxxxxa planet for the occasionxxxxxxsilvered up

scenic routesxxxxxxwe’ve been included in…

*****

The Translations of Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, 2022, £30.00 hardback.  ISBN: 9780571342525. Reviewed by Sam Milne

This volume collects all the translations of Seamus Heaney. It comprises one hundred and one texts from fourteen languages, an extensive and very useful Introduction by the editor Marco Sonzogni, an extensive Commentary (arranged by decade) providing information on the source texts, a publication history of the translations, and an account of each poem’s background. Heaney’s model throughout, we are informed, was Robert Lowell’s Imitations (and he began translating at the outset of his poetic career, continuing right to the end) and Heaney’s achievement I think is equal to that of Derek Mahon’s Adaptations, a volume also influenced by Lowell (see my review of Adaptations in the March 1, 2023 issue of The High Window). The volume is synoptic, providing a window into Heaney’s personal poetic preferences.

Any…