by Danielle | Dec 18, 2022 | Guest Poems
Sunflower Potatoes, cherry trees and wheat begin in darkness, as sunflowers do, rooted in dank clay, eating ochre, seeking light. With brush for bow and canvases for instruments, in colours only he had vision clean enough to see, he played sonatas filled with blossoms...
by Danielle | Dec 17, 2022 | News
Acumen has nominated the following poems, published in Acumen during 2022, for the 2023 Pushcart edition and Prize: ‘St Cuthbert and the Otters’ by Neil Curry ‘The Landscape of My Heart’ by L.B. Jørgensen ‘Rose Garden’ by Dinah Livingstone ‘Shovelling’ by...
by Danielle | Dec 11, 2022 | Guest Poems
In Places We Invent In places we invent, cities not cities In ways we knew, in our little understanding Of structures and remorse, where stations prosper From years of long cold, or in savannahs Dry winds strip breathless, our new lives Printed veils of fabrics, tools...
by Danielle | Dec 11, 2022 | Guest Poems
Below the Night Sky and Blazing My bones hollow, but I don’t grow feathers like a good bird. The village torches mark the trails from the foothills into the rows of shops, onto the box-heavy-delivery-truck-filled roads, the scabs of progress flicker under the...
by Danielle | Dec 4, 2022 | Guest Poems
Voice for the War Refugees The suffering of others is always a foreign language. They speak, leave gaps for others to fill. Keep meaning close, crisp and dangerous. Packed into camps, huddled behind wire, they bandy facts into lies, clench fear into a pause. And speak...
