absence Archives

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.

The Well-Spring - by Stewart Conn

{ Poem }

Since the former priestess’s departure / a sea-change has taken place.

Silences - by Tom Pow

{ Poem }

‘…that which is absent from maps is as much a proper field
/ for enquiry as that which is present’
/ J. B.

The Invention of Zero - by Andrew Philip

{ Poem }

What like was it
/ this abundant world
/
/ where nothing was not—
/ …