Martin Edmond is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. His books include Streets of Music (1980), Houses, Days, Skies (1988) and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont (1999). He studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA, Victoria University of Wellington. He worked as a junior lecturer before joining avant-garde theatre group Red Mole, as a writer more »
A POETIC LIFE A few years ago I ran into this poet type who seemed to be alright We would meet occasionally, invariably at gigs, and get right down to the important part of any poetry gig, the drinking… As poets wandered to and from the stage the pair of them sat, quietly, soaking in more »
tar Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters this week, continuing the cinematic saga of an interplanetary civilization’s struggles with galactic war and tyranny. It will be watched by millions whose own civilization is beset by global warfare driven by a planetary empire on the verge of descending into a militarized police state. So now more »
Fight Song of the Fiddleback The rain tonight dribbled through the silver maple leaves long after it had rained. I sang a few bars of Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues,” thinking of the spider I hit with a boot this afternoon for nothing but fear and all the pests I am always killing to assuage its more »
oan smiles at the camera. Her hands hugging a full bowl, short hair low in two pigtails with blue ribbons falling waist length long, white peasant blouse, blue jeans. The kitchen with clear jars and olive lids full of salt and brown sugar and Japanese green beans, mismatched oven gloves, a range of orange Tupperware more »
BKP ANNUAL 001 2015 Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet. Publisher: BAREKNUCKLE BOOKS. IMPRINT: Bareknuckle Poets ISSN: 2205 – 7218 PUBLISHED: 03/10/2015 Copyright: Bareknuckle Books & Contributors Language: English Extent: 345 pages Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback Interior Ink: Black & white Dimensions: (inches) 6x 9 $25.00 + $8.00 P&H (global) AUD Click the button below to visit Bareknuckle Bookshop The first annual Bareknuckle Poet print anthology. This more »
By the river at Borva The river’s chorus of dusk birds & what happens to water after boats carve through it at speed. Eloquence is not everything, naming things just reduces them. Defences disband, buses shuttle across the bridge, buoys blink. & like that I find a poem in the frayed ends of a soft more »
Bareknuckle Poet Anthology Volume 1 2015 ★ This issue contains a selection of writers published here at Bareknuckle Poet during the past twelve months. It is NOT a ‘best of’ . . . it is a selection, and it was tough making that selection. If we included every author that we publish in the online journal every more »
JÓZSEF BÍRÓ was born in 19 may 1951 / BUDAPEST / HUNGARY poet – writer – visual artist and performer 1975 to present. an irregular mini–opera in three acts/movements
It’s taking shape! The first annual Bareknuckle Poet print anthology. This issue contains a selection of writers published here at Bareknuckle Poet during the past twelve months. It is NOT a ‘best of’ . . . it is a selection, and it was tough making that selection. If we included every author that we publish in more »