Spring 2024 Book Launch!
We’re proud to present the next round of Mercurius books!
Mercurius’s Future World(s) is an anthology of essays that look beyond nihilistic neoliberalism.
Mercurius No. 2: Local Nature Devas is a selection of texts and images from the Poetry of Life, Society, Transitions, and Images sections of the website.
Her Baroness Stripped Bare By The Bachelor, Even
The early Twentieth Century saw a glorious liberating explosion in the world of Art. And a lot of artists became very famous and very rich. But not all of them: my poem is a biographical sketch of a woman who was there at the start of this creative burst, responsible for a great deal of it, and yet whose name has mostly been forgotten.
Songlines in the City
For those armed with stories, the city can be a place as deep as the wild ever was. If you know your city, its legends, its soul, its songlines, then walking through it can be an almost hallucinogenic experience, every building, every alleyway, every pub prickling with life, yielding myths and associations.
Approved Abuse and other poems
Three poems by Neal Mason.
Happy New Year Mr. President Episode III: Leviticus Revisited
Satire with an inkling of the infinite. A spiritual journey, a metaphysical quest, a labyrinth without a centre, you name 'em, they'll tick' em.
Interviews with Nine Poets
Mercurius editor Nidia Hernandez takes the poetic pulse of 2022 by interviewing nine poets at the Miami Book Fair: Robert Pinksy, Victoria Redel, John Freeman, Su Cho, Sherry Shenoda, Diane Thiel, Kemi Alabi, Shelley Puhak, and Peter Balakian. Listening to these remarkable voices is an excellent way of wrapping up 2022 and ushering in 2023…
Blanca Varela
“Blanca Varela is neither pleased with her discoveries nor drunk with her songs. With the instinct of the true poet, she knows when to be silent” - Octavio Paz
In Twigs Nor Sky
This selection of wee poems moves through English countryside, from winter into spring. There are so many forgotten gods & demons hiding in England’s landscapes ... and now – after the great ‘transformation’ caused by a tiny dangerous organism, and as our planet’s weathers change ever more quickly – these presences – through all earth’s landscapes – seem to be becoming more noticeable again.
Broken Blues
Two poems
Dreamscape
“Dreamscape” comes from a strange dream, the principal recollection of which was an image of a woman in white cotton summer togs who lies alone on a white field. She becomes a symbol for something beyond herself.
Tirana
A short story by Andew Hart.
An Obituary Explanation
Death is a diabolical diamond, only beautiful when you examine its facets. These poems tell stories about death from the perspective of people who deal, not just with the realities of vacancy, but the truth about the (temporary) survivors.
When You are but a Breath of Light
Five poems by Douglas Cole.
A Conversation with a Conversation
A Conversation with a Conversation is a collaboration between Thomas Helm and Jamie Macleod Bryden. It is, first and foremost, the document of an afternoon well spent in Jardins Laribal, Barcelona. Images of the park - a statue of a women, a font where the water spurts out of a god’s head, pools of water dribbling into other pools of water - somehow found their way into the text.
Five Important Female Latin American Poets
We are pleased to present five of the most important voices in the poetry written over the last 60 years in Latin America: Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Piedad Bonnett, (Colombia) Yolanda Pantin (Venezuela), Carmen Boullosa (Mexico), and Rossella Di Paolo (Peru).
Fill the Earth
Fill the Earth is an off-beat short story by Anne Rouse.
Kathmandu Oracle
In “Kathmandu Oralcle” I had no idea where this thought of finding a penny on a street would lead, and that it lead from Brooklyn to Kathmandu was a great surprise to me.
Jorge Eduardo Eielson and his Visible Song
In Mercurius, we recently published a feature on five outstanding, living Latin American poets. Today I wish to present you with another name: Jorge Eduardo Eielson, who is fascinating not only for his poetry, but also his plastic work.
An Interview with Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed voices in Hispanic letters. Born in 1941 in Montevideo to a family of Italian immigrants, she began publishing at a very young age, winning most of the significant literary prizes in Uruguay before going into exile to Spain in 1972 where she became a citizen in 1975.
Southern Cross Constellation
While I was growing up in a small town in Australia, I watched the stars and dreamed of seeing the rest of the world. Now that I have lived in Europe for years, I look back to that side of the world that lies under the Southern Cross constellation.
The never-ending quest…
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