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Good Friday - by Christina Rossetti

{ Poem }

Am I a stone, and not a sheep, / That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, / To…

Don’t Hesitate to Ask - by Michel Faber

{ Poem }

So many of the people I’ve
/ informed that she is dead
/ have said
/ ‘If there’s anything
/ we can do, anything at all,
/ don’t hesitate…

Late Call - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

Lord, this is pip-squeak calling.
/ Even with your infinite technology
/ I expect your line’s busy. Therefore
/ forgive me my witter, tucked…

Avoiding the gods - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

They have come
/ to scald our blood, to call us out
/ from our bright houses to the twisted shadows under trees.
/ Let us…

Blessing - by Angus Dunn

{ Poem }

There is a god who tends / the empty corners of public places / the spaces where no one goes…

Dionysus and the Maiden - by Robin Robertson

{ Poem }

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

3D - by José Craveirinha

{ Poem }

In the loco…
/ the machine-god,
/ cap and boilersuit,
/ holds the pistons’ mystery in his hand.
/
/ In the Pullman…
/ the First-Class god
/ mellows projects in conditioned air.
/
/ And…

Voluntary Redundancy - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

‘There is at least a moderate risk that there is in your family
/ an alteration in a gene that can cause…

James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission … - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

‘If it is our mission
/ to alleviate suffering
/ as well as to preserve life
/ there should be no conscientious restraint
/
/ and if God has…

Gin I Was God - by Charles Murray

{ Poem }

I’d cast my coat again, rowe up my sark,
An’, or they’d time to lench a second ark,
Tak’ back my word an’ sen’ anither spate,
Droon oot the hale hypothec, dicht the sklat

Wife to Noah - by Eunice Buchanan

{ Poem }

I didna speak
/ whan it bleetert doon.
/ Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
/ sortit, an’ it wis…

The Book of the World - by William Drummond of Hawthornden

{ Poem }

Of this fair volume which we World do name
/ If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care,
/ Of him who…

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