The Arches Jim Godbolt

The Arches Jim GodboltTwenty five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a crazed Noah all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask

come to make his peace

Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow)Ö [Others] are poems of pity and terror

The journal's aim initially

You looked for Spanish cigarettes

CJ Sage works her words with a zesty ease

and American writers have appeared in the Irish Times

Those poems that are set in England are almost wholly defined by Jamaican absences

Paul Perry

it now bears a spidery inscription

traveller and troublemaker

Two thousand years ago a tiny village was founded on the marshy banks of the River Thames

alive to colour