

SILENCE THE GUNS
BASHABI FRASER Image, Calm at Glencorse, by Vibha Pankaj Can we call for a ceasefire to silence the guns And let peace and tranquillity...


CONSCRIPTS IN OUR WAR
To mark this year's COP26 conference being held in Glasgow we are re-publishing this article on humans' use of animals during the war....


CHILDREN NOW
Image courtesy of vlaaitje, pixabay.com JANET DUBÉ Stepping into the garden before supper I was taken with its beauty: swooping swags of...


CARUSO
MARIO RELICH My mother was a fan of Mario Lanza On a snowbound day, she took me to the local cinema to see The Great Caruso, an MGM film...


A TRIO OF POEMS FOR YEMEN
The war in Yemen has created the world's worst humanitarian disaster. Since it started six years ago: 233000 people have died 19.7...
FIRST SIGHTING
Image by Dimitris Vetsikas on Pixabay “… long as a lying whale…” “… a canoe without paddles…” “… ten - twelve - enormous wings … piled on...


Liberty Line
Crocodile caravan coming our way Barred before Harried behind. Stumbling, tumbling Plunging, floating, sinking Stinking boats, stalled...


LOVE BOMB
Watercolour, The Pram, courtesy of Avril Paton I watch the family push a pram Down where the sandy shore meets sea, Letting wee waves lap...


PHOENIX
LEELA SOMA Mangled , strangled, blood, ink blood red, ink black colours dripping on asphalt tracing strange patterns blood red, ink black...


In the Displacement Camp
In the Displacement Camp You sit there and look at me. In that look is all of life, pared down to the eyes of one woman who sits on the...