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Poems by Vladimir Baboshin
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Lovers
You're silent again ... but you could at least
Wave. It's probably cause we both know.
Only afterwards our words are like a...
Poems by Jovica Tasevski–Eternijan
Dark
Black angels
Through the foundations of the fortress
Burrow
(the green ladder
Is thrown into the desert)
The light crown boils over
Greedy raven sows onto it
Dark air
(rotten baskets
Аre filled...
Academician Sisoye’s Inaugural Speech – By Blaze Minevski
Translated from Macedonian by Elizabeta Bakovska
Sisoye was finally made a member of the National’s Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He just needed to deliver his...
L. Frank Baum and the Wonder of Oz
By Kenny Chumbley
He saw his story as a “modernized fairy tale,” but he put no fairies in it. He meant it to be without...
Andrew Lang, The Master of Fairyland
By Kenny Chumbley
In the late 19th century, fairy tales had fallen out of favor with the general public; some educationalists even attacked them as...
J. M. Barrie and The Pan
By Kenny Chumbley
“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all...
H. Rider Haggard: Northern Lights and Valkyries
By Kenny Chumbley
Before Indiana Jones, there was Allan Quatermain; before The Last Jedi, there was King Solomon’s Mines;and before the 1958 swashbuckler, The Vikings,...
Ceremonial – By Carly Joy Miller
Review by: Rajesh Subramanian
The poems in this collection are refreshingly different - in terms of their style, content and poetic poignancy. You catch hold...
No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
Review by Lynn Alexander
When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...
Some Mad Poems Some Sad Poems Some Bad Poems and A Short Story in...
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Jayant Kripalani’s is a return to a kind of poetry few people write these days. As he himself writes, his...
Don’t Run, My Love – A Novella by Easterine Kire
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Easterine Kire takes Naga folk tales and weaves them into stories that could belong to any time and place, set...
Magical Realism or Realism ? – Isabel Allende
Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel, The House of the Spirits, was published in 1982. In addition to...
Multiple facets of Nigerian Literature – An interview with Ikeogu Oke
By Rajesh Subramanian
Ikeogu Oke is one of the best known faces of contemporary Nigerian and African literary world. He won the Nigeria LNG's prestigious...
Why I consider Poetry an endangered art form – An interview with Ikeogu...
Ikeogu Oke is the winner of the 2017 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an annual competition sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG)....
