a literary magazine.
leap year inventory
gardening equipment
old and foreign currency
carved wooden man we will forget his name
but do not tell us
dust forming an aria
some kind of god (boxed)
photos mostly of seascapes
n.b. the water moves be careful
a very abstract forest much walked in
slippers also
healthy scepticism (lid missing)
uneven correspondence
a collective family misspelling
the honest admin of loss
small plastic sticks
perhaps also for gardening
reverence of a kind expressible only in cockney
rhyming slang
an associated reverence for fruit
countermyth (original missing)
a single robin
irreplaceable duplicates
bag of seeds
penchant for allegory with colour-matched
tendency for its misuse
Bio:
Jonny Wiles is an actor, writer, and translator. He has received the DART and Benjamin Zephaniah poetry prizes, and the Cecil Roth Memorial Prize for his work on Dante’s Divine Comedy. His pamphlet, love and/or the storm, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2020, and his translations of works by three contemporary Italian poets were anthologised in Alibi in 2022. He lives and works in London.
Email: wiles.jcw@gmail.com
Twitter handle: @jonnywiles