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The Empty House
The Empty House Invite no one into our house, for they will repair the doors, windows, staircase and windows, they will see the moths in the corners, the rusty locks, the blind, ruined lamps....
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Two poems by Wendy Guerra
David Hockney, Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool, 1964 Wendy Guerra (b. 1970, Cienfuegos, Cuba) is part of a younger generation of Cuban writers and artists who express themselves in a mix of genres...
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Cretins
I am listening to a Chopin nocturne here in my attic, as the rain falls on the city. It is evening and it is autumn. Tomorrow I am going into hospital where someone will poke around in my liver with a...
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Ernesto Cardenal’s Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
Yesterday I was introduced to one of the great poets of the 20th century, Ernesto Cardenal, on the fragile grounds that I have translated some of his poems, two of which appeared in Poetry Wales...
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Facts about Things
Omnesia, W.N. Herbert’s new collection of poetry, comes in two volumes, subversively titled Alternative Text and Remix, so as to disabuse the reader of any notion of an ‘original’. The word ‘omnesia’...
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