ARCHSTUDIO Weaves Eastern Poetry into Songmont’s Immersive Retail Landscapes

Chinese bag brand Songmont, celebrated for its fusion of Eastern philosophy and timeless aesthetics, has transitioned from digital dominance into the physical realm with a series of experiential retail stores designed by ARCHSTUDIO. Strategically located …

This month in poetry: In just a few words

How to make blackout poetry

Reignite your creative fire with blackout poetry – the art of framing what’s already thereIn this short video, the UK filmmaker, writer and artist Andrew Lavers introduces viewers to blackout poetry (or erasure), in which a writer creates poems by hiding …

CONCLUSION – Inspirational Poetry by Shana Gudger

Shana Gudger (Courtesy photo) CONCLUSION I go to God and share my innermost self The yearnings that plaque thyself I speak to Him Like I can to no one else Sharing my dreams, my fears, my innermost self The longings I crave The temptations I can’t speak …

No country for old poets? Barry Hill’s Lamb is a work of vitality and rejuvenation

If any generalisations can be made of Australian poetry, one of them might be that Australia is no country for old poets. It is hard enough finding an audience while you’re alive. Then, when you’re no longer around to read or speak of them, your poems will …

Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska

This Year Her Present wasn’t a book — my shelves sag under the weight of volumes she’s given me over the last two decades since I moved from Ukraine to Ireland; wasn’t a dress — she has such a sharp sense of style: the last one was a black linen gown with …

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast

That we tend to regard the shift from the short story to the novel as a natural authorial progression perhaps speaks to a failure to recognise the shorter form as its own distinct discipline. Short stories are not novels in miniature, or parts of novels …

Historic Paramount Theater reborn as community hub in Clarksdale

By Susannah Broun for The Daily Yonder. Broadcast version by Trimmel Gomes for Mississippi News Connection for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Clarksdale, Mississippi, is known as the birthplace of the blues. The small town in the …

Diatribe: Ashpoems

It is only when the fire burns to ashes, when the embers are glowing, that cooking, and warmth is possible. Similarly, in George Vassilacopoulos’ latest poetry collection: Ashpoems, we are presented with the smouldering verses of a poetry that having been …

President Higgins celebrates 25 years of ‘Lungs of Galway’

President Michael D Higgins last week returned to the scene of the felling of an oak tree that he had planted 25 years ago — and planted another in the same spot. The former Mayor of Galway, TD and Minister commemorated a quarter century of Terryland …