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Echo: Dropt Sapphics - by Heather H. Yeung

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Icarus poem - by Heather H. Yeung

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Echo: Dropt Sapphics - by Heather H. Yeung

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What cld you potentially – no! – possibly do to mean – O – wait! this feels too facile. So try once again. Make sure it is all sure – steadfast – scalar movements towards god knows what. You request the sun is shut out so you can muse on song. O – but of […]

Greek Tragedy - by Ian A. Olson

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They did not know they stood by Leukas’ rocks
/ (Where Sappho’s story hurls her from above)
/ While waiting for the transports to…

Chronos - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

A man wi’ a great big beard
/ A met;
/ Said: ‘Don’t be feared
/ If ye get wet.
/
/ Run twenty years
/ On nature’s…

Wedding Dress - by Stewart Sanderson

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A paper lantern on a balcony
/ in one of those old Edo evenings you
/ have read about, perhaps. Kabuki, tea
/ and blossom, wavering:…

from Memorial - by Alice Oswald

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The first to die was PROTESILAUS / A focused man who hurried to darkness / With forty black ships leaving…

The Homecoming - by Manuel Rivas

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For Lois Pereiro
/
/ In Ithaca everyone was dead.
/ They say it was me, Argos the dog, who woke first:
/ — Dead, dead, dead!
/ A smell…

Iam pauca aratro iugera regiae - by Angus Calder

{ Poem }

Public libraries / were cherished like Pallas Athene’s temples, / which, for us, in effect, they were.

Dionysus and the Maiden - by Robin Robertson

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after Nonnus
/
/ I
/
/ Her only home was here in this forest, among the high rocks,
/ sending her long arrows in flight through…

Ariadne - by Eunice Buchanan

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The threid that reeled him in
/ has brocht me oot –
/ oot o the nairra mask
/ o thirled weys
/ tae the clear licht…

A’ Siubhal nam Blàth - by Derick Thomson

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Seillean
/ dian, dùrachdach
/ a’ siubhal nam blàth
/ mar a bhà
/ ann an Àird nam Murchan
/ o chionn dà cheud bliadhna gu leth
/ agus an dubh-Mhùideartach
/ ga dhian-amharc,
/ agus…

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