Florencia Rodriguez Giles, Viaje Inmóvil, 2020, courtesy of the artist, photograph by Pedro Serr.
and gone are the seasons/ dormant under smoke
Two poems by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe L'oeil of Two Dead Birds Hanging on a Wall, ca. 1672
In forty years I won’t talk in my dreams
A poem by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin.
Kharkiv, Ukraine: 1 March 2022. View of the ruined city center of Kharkiv.
Bombs Over Kharkiv
“Notes from a Kharkivite” by Andrei Krasniashikh, translated by Tanya Paperny.
Remedios Varo, Plant architecture, 1962, public domain.
Sirens pour dark sound
A poem by Jan Skácel, translated from Czech by Daniela Kukrechtová.
A City on a Rock, style of Goya, 19th century.
who came to power in our cities?
A poem by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from Ukrainian by Valzhyna Mort.
Wall painting: ‘Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase,’ last decade of the 1st century B.C., public domain
the sacrificial knife in a woman’s hand
Three poems by Liana Sakelliou, translated from Greek by Don Schofield
The Yellow Room, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), public domain.
And how we violated the calm
Six poems by Angélica Tornero, translated from Spanish by Krista Ingebretson
Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris) Etruscan Vase with Flowers, 1900–10, public domain.
I was so hungry thinking how love used to taste
Five poems by Souad Labbize, translated from French by Susanna Lang
Odilon Redon, Hallucinations.
the wet words would get naked get cold
A poem by Ali Babachahi, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
Woodcut by Heidrun Rathgeb, on show at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London. Copyright Heidrun Rathgeb.
penned in by a semi-sick swaying
A poem by Julia Wong Kcomt, translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue.