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Reality and Justice. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh

Reality and Justice To: 215 children found buried on the site of what was Canada’s largest Indigenous Residential School. We have been playing in darkness with the covered eyes, since we were children then I wanted to find you for I needed to win. Floundered in the footprint of time, I need to find youContinue reading “Reality and Justice. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh”

Rebecca. A poem by beam

Rebecca Rebecca is lying in bed Rebecca is being laid on by a cartoonishly small dog Rebecca dreamed about this dog when she was three, four, five and once when she was seven Rebecca is trying to make this about the dog Rebecca, Beka, Becks, Bean and once ‘’Beckham’’ that one didn’t really stick, althoughContinue reading “Rebecca. A poem by beam”

Summer 2021 Reading Highlights. Gordon Phinn

Books reviewed and referenced Polly Sampson, A Theatre For Dreamers (Harper Collins)Margaret Lawrence,  Short Non-Fiction (Nora Foster Stovel, ed)  (McGill/Queens)Clinton Heylin, The Double Life Of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 (Little, Brown)Salman Rushdie, Languages Of Truth  (Knopf)Bardia Sinaee, Intruder (Anansi)Stephen Roxborough, I Feel You Doughnut Pain (Optimistic Press)Stephen Heighton, Selected Poems, 1983-2020 (Anansi)SusanContinue reading “Summer 2021 Reading Highlights. Gordon Phinn”

Negotiating Caponata. A Book Review by Josephine LoRe

Negotiating Caponata Carla Scarano D’Antonio   https://www.carlascaranod.co.uk Dempsey & Windle 2020 ISBN 9781913329228 £ 8.00 https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/carlascarano.html Negotiating Caponata … a review by Josephine LoRe Carla Scarano D’Antonio’s Caponata arrived late last year and I devoured it in one sitting.  Enough time has passed now for the unique flavours to blend as they would in the caponataContinue reading “Negotiating Caponata. A Book Review by Josephine LoRe”

You Look Good for Your Age. Rona Altrows

Every so often, WordCity Literary Journal may choose to feature an important and engaging book that’s come to our attention. This issue, in keeping with the feminist threads woven throughout our collection, we are giving space to Rona Altrows, for her anthology, You Look Good for Your Age With a lineup of authors that includeContinue reading “You Look Good for Your Age. Rona Altrows”

Writing Advice with Sue Burge. Mslexia

Many of the pieces in this month’s issue of WordCity are reflections on Women’s Rights.  My advice this month is to write beyond your comfort zone, and I have a suggestion for you of how female writers can find the encouragement to do this within the pages of one innovative and highly regarded writing magazine,Continue reading “Writing Advice with Sue Burge. Mslexia”

Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge. Dead [Women] Poets Society

Dead [Women] Poets Society (D[W]PS) is a collective which began in 2015.  Its aim is to resurrect women poets of the past, both in live events (séances) and online and also to raise awareness of women’s wide-ranging and profound literary heritage, and open up conversations between living writers and these often forgotten and side-lined women.Continue reading “Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge. Dead [Women] Poets Society”

Why He Hasn’t Been Around. Non-fiction by Wade Cravath Bell.

Why He Hasn’t Been Around       The manic depressive’s outbursts are incomprehensible to others. After one, Theo was calm and possessed until his girlfriend said, “I will have to leave you. Your moods are killing me.” His civil service job with its soul destroying boredom and inconsequentiality chaffed him raw. He wrote poems, stories. It didn’tContinue reading “Why He Hasn’t Been Around. Non-fiction by Wade Cravath Bell.”

Eva Salzman’s Introduction to Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English

  WOMEN’S WORK: MODERN WOMEN POETS WRITING IN ENGLISH Introduction by Eva Salzman to Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing English, Eds Eva Salzman & Amy Wack   I This anthology presents a panoramic selection of leading English-speaking modern poets, with an emphasis on bridging the US, UK and Ireland divides. You’ll find here aContinue reading “Eva Salzman’s Introduction to Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English”