L’heure jaune (The yellow hour)
“To my father, who transformed the famous “blue hour”, which appears when the sun is setting, and told me about…
Pêcheur de maux
This poem cannot be translated literally because in French there is a play on words between "mots" (words) and "maux"…
Fight Night Sonnets
Can the brutality of Fight Night be captured through the language of love? Fight Night was one of the last…
An impression of The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers’ most recent masterpiece, The Lighthouse, is a black and white depiction of an insular maritime setting where two…
Tongue (and suspended belief)
I can taste marijuana on the tip of his tongue. And his nose ring was cold from the Melbourne winter.…
Paper Skin
History tells us that continents were forged out of paper skin, and paper is the new blood that grew into…
Nos peaux comme des pôles
© Image by Rob Woodcox
What’s the value in historical romance?
A person like me would not have a life worth living in 19th century Britain, and yet I am enthralled…
The art of the scandalous nude
The nude as a concept has made waves on the digital sea ever since the infamous 2007 nude leak, when…
