In The Poetry

This is the last of the ‘Wire Through the Heart’ poems – it’s called ‘Malenki Robot’ which in Russian, or rather in the Hungarian version of the Russian phrase, ‘malenki robot’ is ‘a little light work’. The Red Army rounded up about a tenth of the men and put them in camps for what they [...]

This is a poem from Tender to the Queen of Spain which is my most recent book, called ‘In Praise of Vodka’.

In praise of vodka

The taste they say for they must
or they feel that they must so they say
so they say they say it has none
there’s no taste, just water.

Water: the glassy lake Christ trod,
a [...]