The Veil by Manash Bhattacharjee
She walks past the wave
Of curious glances
An apparition eluding
Light and desire
Everything she hides from
Trembles in her body
She remembers the lures
In every street
But no street...
SYRIA by Ghayth Armanazi
SUFFER THE COUNTRY Suffer the curled up corpses of the tortured
Suffer the cluttered ranks of the bound and the beaten
Suffer the pleading eyes of those...
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Excerpt from Chapter OneThe battle was over, but still Kazuteru ran. He had duty to fulfil. The young samurai ignored the howling of his...
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Excerpt from Chapter One The battle was over, but still Kazuteru ran. He had duty to fulfil. The young samurai ignored the howling of his...
Poet in Delhi by Manash Bhattacharjee
Can you rinse away this city that lastslike blood on the bitten tongue?~ Agha Shahid Ali
Delhi,where parrots liftthe weight of tombs,poets offer daggersto deepen...
The Modern Eye – Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern
‘Without anxiety and sickness I would have been a rudderless ship…’– E. Munch
At any given time of the year, somewhere on the continent, there...
Fragment of the Fringe: a Reflection. By Oliver Wood
The fringe, so say the mummers, has become over-commercialised in recent years. Too many agents, too much spin, a lack of government support, not...
Men at Work
Holland Park Opera: Tchaikovsky, Yevgeny Onegin and Verdi, FalstaffThe Merry Wives of Windsor is a very dull play indeed. We can be grateful for...
The Fear of Breathing. By James Denselow
Over sixteen months into the unrest in Syria a true picture of events on the ground is still hard to ascertain. This is partly...