Editorial: e-artnow
David Park Barnitz is a poet known for his book "The Book of Jade" which describes a masterpiece of decadent and nihilistic verse. This book is the only one published in his name with a theme of dark vision, rhythm, and rhyme. A piece of art for people interested in poems and artistic writing that pierce the soul.
'All of human history? It's basically people taking things from each other.' A thousand-year-old statue of the Bodhisattva Guanyin lives in the British Museum. When it emerges that the statue was stolen from its original home, the museum attempts to deflect both the public response and controversial repatriation claims from the Chinese government. As statesmen scheme and grease their palms, beneath the statue, witches dance, a cleaner prays, and spirits weep. Joel Tan's daring, shape-shifting play unfolds the statue's journey from China to Britain and back again, stirring up age-old ghosts and asking who can claim cultural artefacts – and why? Scenes from a Repatriation was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by experimental theatre-makers emma + pj.Ver libro
Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general. Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him. His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week. When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner. In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it." She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic. Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét. She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 1 - The Poetry of Elinor Wylie - An Introduction 2 - Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie 3 - Escape by Elinor Wylie 4 - Ophelia by Elinor Wylie 5 - The Puritan's Ballad by Elinor Wylie 6 - Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie 7 - Parting Gift by Elinor Wylie 8 - Little Elegy by Elinor Wylie 9 - Love Song by Elinor Wylie 10 - Quarrel by Elinor Wylie 11 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 12 - Les Lauriers Sont Coupee by Elinor Wylie 13 - Sunset on the Spire by Elinor Wylie 14 - Phases of the Moon by Elinor Wylie 15 - Full Moon by Elinor Wylie 16 - Nadir by Elinor Wylie 17 - Address to My Soul by Elinor Wylie 18 - The Child on the Curbstone by Elinor Wylie 19 - The Eagle and the Mole by Elinor Wylie 20 - The Falcon by Elinor Wylie 21 - A Proud Lady by Elinor Wylie 22 - Preference by Elinor Wylie 23 - Nancy by Elinor Wylie 24 - The Lion and the Lamb by Elinor Wylie 25 - Beauty by Elinor Wylie 26 - The Tortoise in Eternity by Elinor Wylie 27 - The Fairy Goldsmith by Elinor Wylie 28 - Innocent Landscape by Elinor Wylie 29 - A Madman's Song by Elinor Wylie 30 - Poor Earth by Elinor Wylie 31 - The Church Bell by Elinor Wylie 32 - Cold Blooded Creatures by Elinor Wylie 33 - Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie 34 - Little Joke by Elinor Wylie 35 - Pretty Words by Elinor Wylie 36 - Incantation by Elinor Wylie 37 - Fire and SleVer libro
Twin girls. One grows up, has a full life packed with incident, only a few regrets. The other dies twenty minutes after being born. Both of them are here. James Fritz's short play twins was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in November 2015 as part of the Miniaturists' 10th Birthday Bash. 'Completely enthralling… a superb piece of writing that conveys the beauty and cruelty of life in a wonderful and completely non-sentimental way. A fabulous example of a short play at its best' - LondonTheatre1Ver libro
Nerys Williams' new collection questions what makes a Republic? Machinations of power? The speeches of politicians? The broad sweep of official histories? This sequence of 80 prose-poems, each constructed in 20 sentences, has arisen from the author's need to tell a more intimate history, to commit an untold oral history to paper. Williams returns to the meaning of "republic" in its Latin origins which meant "wealth of the people". The poems tell the story of a young Welsh woman growing up and coming of age in the 1980s and 90s, a time that culminated with new devolutionary powers in Wales. The explosion of the arts and culture looms large, through bands from New Order to my bloody valentine, but it is explored specifically through Cŵl Cymru', and the power of Welsh-language bands like Datblygu. This story is also about class, as we explore a family history of hard work in jobs from retail to caregiving. The poems introduce us to family influences, from a father who urges the narrator as a child to 'own the stage' in an early school Eisteddfod, to a grandmother who worked long hours in her rural shop, and a mother who was the local midwife. There are stories told, overheard, handed down, sometimes translated from Welsh. Together, they create an expansive portrait of the era, including the challenges for women, Welsh-speakers, and other marginalized groups. Ferocious remarks about the Welsh in the popular media are dissected with satirical humour and appalled fascination, while other poems describe being a token woman and political outsider on a TV current affairs show panel, tolerated but ostracized. From her more recent home, the republic of Ireland, Williams poses the possibilities of a nation looking at itself and its history from afar. Wales has not been allowed to be a republic, but is subject to a state that has military claims on its landscape and a second home explosion which has a severe impact on its communities. There is rebellion to be found in the older meaning of "republic": since the wealth of the people is a wealth of sounded stories, culture, art, and history. 'Nerys Williams's Republic is a tour de force, a masterful account of the intellectual, political and personal development of a young woman from Welsh-speaking rural Wales and out in the world. Pitched against nostalgia, Nerys Williams's prose poems are tough-minded, shrewd and hugely evocative of the times she chronicles. She deploys details so vividly and with such a light a touch that she's created a new music all of her own. This book, like a waistcoat belt she describes, is a 'steel buckle, once harnessed to silk'.' —Gwyneth Lewis 'The poetry of Nerys Williams is both playful and sharply preceptive, drawing on a wide range of often unexpected influences. She brings a unique set of interests to bear not just poetry in Wales, but on poetry generally.'—Zoë Skoulding 'Nerys Williams brings precision, scrutiny, and synaesthesia to her terse, contemplative poems.' -Ben Wilkinson, The Guardian '…a strong imagism and an engaging 'I' voice that sometimes subverts expectations, allowing for a shift into more collective concerns. In addition, her deft handling of soundplay (especially the use of alliteration and assonance) greatly add to the experience of the poem as art.' -Michael S. Bengal Poetry IrelandVer libro
South Sanford only has one point of entry and one point of exit... Trapped inside of South Sanford are poverty, corruption, media lies, and a human trafficking ring the city who live there are blamed for yet victims of. Nevertheless, ebony bombshell Shatima Thomas feels she's been led there by her spiritual guides to unite with the family she was separated from after her father was murdered by the police. In five years, all she's been met with are the desires of men and crooked cops who want to use her to get them locked up. Men are the last thing on her mind. She's too busy trying to protect her son from the abusive ex who got her pregnant and has been stalking her since. As he steps out of the shadows, she fears he has connections to her city's dark circumstances that she may not be able to shield her son from alone. For Rahshaan Bailey, life is just something to do until he dies. Known on the streets as "Banger," his only goals are to find the son who was taken from him, and to get the pretty girl in his building to give him a chance. When he finds out he has a connection to her that goes beyond the lust he feels for the ebony bombshell, he makes it his life's mission to protect her and her son from whatever she's up against. If only she'll tell him what it is...Ver libro
Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves. Songs and Stories of the Ghouls purports to give power to the dead—voices to the victims of genocide both ancient and contemporary—and presence to women. Medea did not kill her sons; Dido founds a city, over and over again, the city of the present author's poetry. In these poems the poet asserts that though her art comes from a tradition as broken as Afghanistan's statuary, there is always a culture to pass on to one's children, and one is always involved in doing so. We are the ghouls, the drinkers of the blood-sacs, and we insist that we are alive.Ver libro
