A Little History of Signs and Symbols

A Little History of Signs and Symbols, by Lucy Newlyn   1 Chronos, the Greek god of Time, is master of storytellers and poets, who use two signs to figure the passage of time, the circle and the arrow. Each sign influences which movement they choose – the circle...

Fragments of a New Essay

Fragments of a New Essay Tom Bredehoft      Our sons their fathers’ failing language see,     And such as Chaucer is shall Dryden be,     And Wycherly and Congreve, Behn and Scrope,     Shall prove as fallible as any Pope. It’s a project I don’t know if I even want to...

Language and Poetry: four Verse Essays

Language and Poetry: four Verse Essays by Gary Day   I  A History of Language in Nine Fragments The first articulation created The possibility of silence, and broke Forever with earth’s natural music.  Shapes on stone lightened Into letters that were yoked...

An Eclogue

An Eclogue, by Bill Hughes   Preface This eclogue forms part of a longer poem which, in part, meditates on the deaths of people close to me and on my own hospitalisation. I was contemplating the fragility of the human body and the paradox that it is only through...