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Ishmael Annobil's latest poem inspired by the charred remains of the Pompeii. Here he speculates on the possibility of love between a prostitute and her client at the final hour.
Young, prodigious Poet Lindsey Hall presents a series of poems that are at once lyric and rarefied, some drawing the contemporary alongside mythical parallels.
Lindsey Hall's important, neo-classical poem: "Iocaste sighs in her last breaths of life as she’s done through all time./ Chamber on high in the pale Grecian sky l
Anita Keymatlian is a modern beat poet, naturally influenced by her surroundings: the British Inner City, Hop-Pop, the pains and triumphs of the individual in an ever challenging and alienating cyc
Chapter One of Ishmael Fiifi Annobil's novella, Crispus Attucks, about a West African stevedore who stowed away to the USA many years ago. He has just finished his 50-year tenure as the paint
Chapter Two of Ishmael Fiifi Annobil's novella, Crispus Attucks, about a West African stevedore who stowed away to the USA many years ago. He has just finished his 50-y
Two movements from Ishmael Annobil's long poem for the Homeless, Miserere. Here he contrasts dire nostalgia (and the foolish myth of fate) with deliverance.
An elegiac poem by Ishmael Annobil for the more sensitive members of the expatriate African/Carribean community, who are pushed into mental illness by alienation.
Sean Charles explores parallel universes with his first story for Ciaroscuro - a particularly well-observed and gentle piece of prose, balancing the poignancy of scient
A short poem by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil poem about the feverish struggles of many Modern Africans in the face the continent's toothless and uncaring leadership, whose leg
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