EVERY DEAD BABY IS A BABY CROATIAN
‘It isn’t a tank, it’s an ambulance.’ In the Information Centre of Bosnia-Herzegovina in London, we know We are losing the war as we...
Jumble Sail (Or a Bunch of Immigrants)
Jumble Sail (Or a Bunch of Immigrants) They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea. In spite of the odds On a...
NAGASAKI 1945
(After an eyewitness account by Dr Tatsuichiro Akizuki) At 10.30 the siren sounded, at 11 o’clock the all-clear. Sticking a needle into...
RETURN (For the Chibok girls)
Doubled by her child your child spoiled shop soiled sex machined for soul- less soldiers invaded knocked up battered. Your child...
NO ANSWER
Mary Smith is a poet, novelist and journalist living in the south west of Scotland and working in both English and Scots. She spent ten...
memorial (passchendaele 100)
bugle notes intone the hundred millionth earthly post commemorating how easily men who would not wish to be enemies become cannon...
THE MEN
February, damp and unpredictable, the air still. On the edge of the allotments two men stand talking. One smokes a slow pipe while the...
MADONNAS
Excuse me, can I have a word? The thing is, I wanted to catch the early bus but I didn’t get on it. I wanted…actually, I needed to speak...
MEN WHO WEEP
Image by Dariusz Sankowski Captains of industry, senators, honourable gentlemen, Allow me to redefine terror, for you. Our troops out...
FLOWERS FOR HIS GRAVE
FLOWERS FOR HIS GRAVE by Lesley Traynor ‘Their flowers, the tenderness of patient minds’ Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen After he...